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Militia Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the…
- There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether…
- I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the…
- This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against…
- The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they…
- The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service]…
More Militia Quotes
- The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support… — John Adams
- To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. — George Washington
- The United States should get rid of its militias. — Joseph Stalin
- A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms. — Richard Henry Lee
- This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight. — David Petraeus
- Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty… — Richard Henry Lee
- [W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was… — George Mason
- The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves. — Dianne Feinstein
- By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and… — John F. Kennedy
- I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people. — George Mason
- The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by… — Joseph Story
- ...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison