"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms..."
- Richard Henry Lee, 1788
"Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ...the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
- Tench Coxe, 1788
Molon labe.