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To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...

— Richard Henry Lee

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Additional Letters From The Federal Farmer, 53 (1788); although generally attributed to Lee, his authorship of these letters is disputed in "The Authorship of the Letters from the Federal Farmer" by Gordon S. Wood, in The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 31, No. 2 (April 1974)

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