“When our fathers achieved independence, the corner-stone of the government they constructed was INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, and the social organization they established were not for the surrender but the protection of natural rights. . . ."

Jefferson Davis, “When our fathers achieved independence, the corner-stone of the government they constructed was INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, and the social organization they established were not for the surrender but the protection of natural rights. . . . The law does not invade the right to keep and bear arms for private and public use but the abuse of that right by such practice as BEFITS THE ASSASSIN, the burglar, the invader of the rights of others. . . . The natural rights of man are those which belong to the social condition, that being his natural state of existence and those are termed inalienable, the exercise of which society has no right to obstruct.”, Sept. 20, 1887