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Alexander Hamilton Quotes about Second Amendment

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.156, Hackett Publishing

This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

John Church Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton (1860). “History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and of His Contemporaries”, p.140