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St. George Tucker Quotes:

Ocupation: Lawyer

Life: July 10, 1752 - November 10, 1827

Birthday: July 10

Death: November 10

Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.

- St. George Tucker

source: William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.300, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

topic: Army, Gun, Color, 2 Amendment, Patriotic Gun, Amending The Constitution, Amendment 1, Amendment 19, Amendment 4, Anti Gun, Gun Rights, British Government

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