A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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- Author's profession: President
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 16, 1751
- Died: June 28, 1836
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Once that is clearly understood, I think that each of us can stay quietly in the state in which nature has placed him. since the middle station allotted to us is always far from the extremes, what does it matter if someone else has a slightly better understanding of things? If he has, and if he takes them a little further, is he not still infinitely remote from the goal? Is not our span of life equally infinitesimal in eternity, even if it is extended by ten years?
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