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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." United States Constitution, Amendment II |
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| "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." |
Thomas Jefferson to George Washington,
1796 |
| "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." |
Jefferson's "Commonplace Book",
1774-1776 |
| "We established however some, although not all its important principles. The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." |
Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright,
1824 (emphasis added) |
| "No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." |
Thomas Jefferson, draft of the Virginia Constitution,
1776 |
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