China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation.
Every free man has a right to the use of the press, so he has to the use of his arms.
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an Americans.
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,. . . The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.
As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power merely because their father held it before them.
The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves?.
Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet.
Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.
. . . we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.
[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.