Who Said This?

[big_bad_buff]

"Citizens need to be armed in order to protect themselves against a tyrannical government"


i have a mp3 file of someone saying this exact quote that i download like 2 years ago and it sounds like Richard nixon....anyone know for sure?

 

[bw1]

I think John Ashcroft, but I am not sure

 

[pin]

Me!

 

[bw1]

Me!

You're a good bro

 

[Powerbuilder333]

Thomas Jefferson - but I doubt you have a mp3 file of it.

 

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You're a good bro

Thanks. At least someone apprieciates my hostile self today.

 

[big_bad_buff]

Thomas Jefferson - but I doubt you have a mp3 file of it.

i thought it might have been Thomas Jefferson, and i know ashcroft said it recently, but iv had the audio for over 2 years now

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

Charleton Heston?

 

[big_bad_buff]

i dont know, i can't find the quote on the net anywhere, i can find the thing about kennedy saying ashcrot is a fruit for saying it, but i cant find out who originaly said it

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

You mean you want to know the originator of the "well armed citizen" philosophy? I think it was John Locke.

 

[Lestat]

George Washington?

 

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"well armed citizen"?

 

[big_bad_buff]

You mean you want to know the originator of the "well armed citizen" philosophy? I think it was John Locke.

i want to know where that wxact quote originated from, who was the first person to use it....i need to know because i want to use it but i want to quote the right person

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

"Citizens need to be armed in order to protect themselves against a tyrannical government"


i have a mp3 file of someone saying this exact quote that i download like 2 years ago and it sounds like Richard nixon....anyone know for sure?

I found it. It is originally from James Madison. Ashcroft was quoting Madison from Madison's essay, "The Federalist #46" of "the Federalist Papers". It was written under the pseudonym Publius.

 

[big_bad_buff]

I found it. It is originally from James Madison. Ashcroft was quoting Madison from Madison's essay, "The Federalist #46" of "the Federalist Papers". It was written under the pseudonym Publius.

heck yeah man thanks a lot, green to ya