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> [“This argument—“We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from our hands,”97—was a politico-military ideal but an inaccurate prediction, for both Cicero and the Roman republic, in part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-p-halbrook/this-argument-we-are-all-of-us-carried-along-by-a-fiery-zeal-to/)

[Stephen P. Halbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-p-halbrook/)

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## Other authors on Cicero

## More by Stephen P. Halbrook

> [“It is a natural right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the Bill of Rights, to keep arms for their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-p-halbrook/it-is-a-natural-right-which-the-people-have-reserved-to-themselves/)

[Stephen P. Halbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-p-halbrook/)

> [“Nazi policies prohibiting possession of firearms helped to consolidate Hitler's power at home, exacerbated persecution of the Jews, aiding their arrest and deportation, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-p-halbrook/nazi-policies-prohibiting-possession-of-firearms-helped-to/)

[Stephen P. Halbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-p-halbrook/)

> [“The paradigm that government should have a monopoly of small arms implies the surreal normative postulate that citizens—or, rather, subjects—should be treated as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-p-halbrook/the-paradigm-that-government-should-have-a-monopoly-of-small-arms/)

[Stephen P. Halbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-p-halbrook/)

> [“the Nazis confiscated firearms to prevent armed resistance, whether individual or collective, to their own criminality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-p-halbrook/the-nazis-confiscated-firearms-to-prevent-armed-resistance-whether/)

[Stephen P. Halbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-p-halbrook/)

> [“This argument—“We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from our hands,”97—was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-p-halbrook/this-argument-we-are-all-of-us-carried-along-by-a-fiery-zeal-to/)

[Stephen P. Halbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-p-halbrook/)

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