A “well-regulate militia” is nothing more than decent citizens of any country who refuse to be victims of a predatory state.
We are approaching a time in history where the American Revolutionary War will be replayed the world over from Asia, the Middle East, to Papua New Guinea .
Benjamin Franklin quotes:
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
0nly a virtuous nation is capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
Trusting too much to others’ care is the ruin of many; for, as the almanac says, in the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it; but a man’s own care is profitable; for, saith Poor Dick, learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and Heaven to the virtuous.
But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities! We are offered, by the terms of this vendue, six months’ credit; and that perhaps has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose you veracity, and sink into base downright lying; for, as Poor Richard says, the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. And again to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt’s back.
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
It could be all that. Or it could be Ceaucesceau in Romania. We might all decide we’ve had enough and hang them all. Not that I would ever promote violence.