To take from the people the right of bearing arms and put their weapons of defense in the hands of a standing army would be scarcely more dangerous to their liberties than to permit the Government to accumulate immense amounts of treasure beyond the supplies necessary to its legitimate wants.
Jackson warns that disarming the populace and allowing government to hoard wealth poses a significant threat to liberty.
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There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.
It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
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