James Burgh Quotes About Second Amendment

• No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

  James Burgh

  Gun, Thinking, People

  James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

• No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

  James Burgh

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

  James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

• ....there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

  James Burgh

  Army, Differences, People

  James Burgh (1774). “Political Disquisitions: Or, An Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses”, p.476

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