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Defense Quotes by James Madison
- The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
- To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and…
- Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more…
- The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from…
- The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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- The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
- Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense. — Bob Barr
- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat
- Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
- Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. — Conrad Black
- For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice… — Aeschylus
- The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois