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Old 07-27-2012, 12:25 PM
 
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-Thomas Jefferson
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Old 07-27-2012, 01:01 PM
 
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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-Thomas Jefferson
Actually, the quote goes:

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Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords
And it was by Benjamin Franklin, not Thomas Jefferson.
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Old 07-27-2012, 01:03 PM
 
Location: North America
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Just like the lions and lambs discussing lunch that Ben Franklin never said.
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Old 07-27-2012, 04:03 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."

-by neither Franklin nor Jefferson, but true just the same
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Old 07-27-2012, 04:32 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Actually, neither Jefferson nor Franklin ever said.
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Old 07-27-2012, 04:35 PM
 
Location: southern california
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i am convinced disarming the american public is at the heart of the gun ban movement and that heart is bent not on protection of that public but in its subjugation.
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Old 07-27-2012, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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"What chance do you stand against the US military that they'd need to wait until they took your guns to subjugate you?"
-EddieB.Good
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Old 07-27-2012, 04:42 PM
 
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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"What chance do you stand against the US military that they'd need to wait until they took your guns to subjugate you?"
-EddieB.Good
Gee, let's see. 200+ million privately owned firearms vs. 1.4 million members of the military.

My money is on the privately owned firearms.
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Old 07-27-2012, 04:44 PM
 
Location: Sango, TN
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-Thomas Jefferson
In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

-James Madison
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Old 07-27-2012, 04:45 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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-Thomas Jefferson
I read that on one of his Twitter posts.

[#plowsnstuff]
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