2 amendment Quote by James Madison

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people…

— James Madison

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid…

— James Madison

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed

— James Madison

The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing…

— Joel Barlow

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every…

— James Madison

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to…

— James Madison

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other…

— Gouverneur Morris

Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be…

— Charley Reese

To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here…

— Timothy Dwight V

I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many…

— Thomas Jefferson

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for…

— Nathanael Greene