Militia Quotes

Militia Quote of the day

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

Hizbullah is not a militia.

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be at the ready, therefore the right to keep and bear arms must be secured.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.

The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.

Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so.

Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?

Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

You’re hurt.”“No. No, I’m fine. It’s not blood. The militiamen were adjusting Sir Lewis’s trebuchet, and there was a mishap. You took a melon for me.” She smiled, even though her lips trembled.

Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we're training him to kill the living?