Elbridge Gerry Quotes:
Ocupation: Former Vice President of the United States
Life: July 17, 1744 - November 23, 1814
Birthday: July 17
Death: November 23
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
source: House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, August 17, 1789.
topic: Freedom, Mean, Army, Invading, Militia, Bane, Founding Fathers Gun, Freedom And Liberty, Amendment 1, Bearing Arms, Government Tyranny
