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ABerkes: New page: '''Quotation:''' "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." '''Variations:'...

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New page: '''Quotation:''' "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." '''Variations:'...

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'''Quotation:''' "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

'''Variations:''' None known.

'''Sources consulted:'''
Searching on the phrase "tyranny in government"

#[http://www.monticello.org Monticello website]
#[http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1734 Ford's ''Works of Thomas Jefferson'']
#[[Short Title List|L&B]] (CD-ROM version)
#[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/#jeffersoncollections UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive]: Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government, Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson from the Modern English Collection
#Thomas Jefferson Retirement Papers
#[http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=17056 ''Quotable Jefferson''] (searching in the index under "government, tyranny and tyrants")

'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1993<ref>Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn, ''Programming, Pitfalls, and Puppy-Dog Tales'' (Author, 1993), [http://books.google.com/books?id=MJDJim0HdVcC&pg=PA121&dq=%22protect+themselves+against+tyranny+in+government%22&lr=#PPP4,M1 121].</ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrase, "protect themselves against tyranny in government": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera Series I, Early American Imprints Series I and II, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, JSTOR.</ref>

'''Other attributions:''' None known.

'''Status:''' This quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. It is often seen preceded by the sentence, "[[No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms]]," which is from Jefferson's draft of the Virginia Constitution.

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[[Category:Spurious Quotations]]

Strongest reason for the people to...keep and bear arms...(Quotation) - Revision history

ABerkes at 21:51, 26 February 2009

ABerkes: Strongest reason for the people to...keep and bear arms moved to Strongest reason for the people to...keep and bear arms...(Quotation)

ABerkes: New page: '''Quotation:''' "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." '''Variations:'...