"We should deprecate the necessity of a resort to force, but we pour scorn upon the craven, the pusillanimous notion that freemen may not vindicate their rights by arms. Courage to resist oppression is the ultimate security for good government. This, at least, was the opinion of our brave forefathers when they took care to provide in the Constitution that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The right to bear arms implies the right, on a sufficient provocation, to use them. The only debatable question relates to the sufficiency of the provocation."
- General Wade Hampton, The Evening Telegraph, Philadelphia, Thursday, July 16, 1868. Vol. X--No. 13. Pg. 2. (Wade Hampton III, (March 28, 1818 – April 11, 1902), was a Confederate cavalry leader during the Civil War. Afterward becoming a U.S. Senator from South Carolina, and serving as the 77th Governor of that state.)
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