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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
People just want to live their best lives. They want to be socially free, physically safe, and financially secure.
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'