Quotes from Joyce Lee Malcolm

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

Leniency toward criminals contrasted starkly with severity toward the law-abiding citizen's right to defend himself or herself.

To protect his life and to prevent any felony, an Englishman was free to inflict even a mortal wound on a would-be felon.

The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.