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Dedicated to Shira Goodman

“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.”
–George Mason, Founder of America

“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
-James Madison, Founder of America

“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”
-Thomas Jefferson, Founder of America

“What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”
-Elbridge Gerry, Founder of America, refused to sign the US Constitution because of the creation of a federal army