That Every Man Be Armed Quotes

“The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside.… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; … the weak will become a prey to the strong.”
― Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right

“A citizenry “trained up unto their arms, which they use not for the defense of slavery but of liberty,” composes “the vastest body of a well-disciplined militia that is possible in nature.”
― Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right

“This argument—“We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from our hands,”97—was a politico-military ideal but an inaccurate prediction, for both Cicero and the Roman republic, in part due to the inferiority of their arms, were killed within the year by Caesar’s standing army.”
― Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right

“Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.”
― Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right