Richard Henry Lee Quotes

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• If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
• A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
• It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of…
• It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
• To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
• Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential…
• The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless,…
• To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms...
• The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly…
• Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how…
• So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations…
• Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the…
• Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all stand on the…
• That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British…
• To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use…

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