Amendment Quote by Blase J. Cupich

The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all other citizens.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is…

— Richard Henry Lee

Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“From gun shows, where they openly promote their product by imploring customers to buy “while you still can,” to homegrown militias who apparently believe…

— Trae Crowder

The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states. The framers,…

— Joseph Sobran

“This morning there s first a predictable story about Darfur; an expert on African affairs notes that seven thousand African Union troops patrolling a…

— Dave Eggers

A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to…

— Jon Niccum

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

— Adnan Pachachi

How can a country be home to sectarian militias and yet also to people who are educated, sophisticated, and pluralistic? This is not a…

— Annia Ciezadlo

The United States should get rid of its militias.

— Joseph Stalin

“In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to be obeyed,…

— George Orwell

In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and…

— Alex Berenson