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James Monroe has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
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The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
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Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor…
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While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of…
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Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
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How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose…
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -…
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising…
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The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.
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The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be…
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Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that…
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If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.
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The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support…
— John Adams
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
— George Washington
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
— Joseph Stalin
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A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
— Richard Henry Lee
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This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.
— David Petraeus
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Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty…
— Richard Henry Lee
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[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
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The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.
— Dianne Feinstein
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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
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I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.
— George Mason
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
— Joseph Story
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect…
— James Madison
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