All the quotes above do sting, but this in particular.
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks...It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
All the quotes above do sting, but this in particular.
I am always amazed at what great thinkers they were. Well versed in philosophy, history and the Bible. They were very logical, not as emotional, guided by solid principles.
A well regulated militia...............
The regulated was solid rehearsal of mental as well as physical attributes.
If I shake you awake in the middle of the night and ask you what you are fighting for, after you reach for your gun, what do you tell me?