No Arms For Our Own Defence? P. Henry

"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms
for our own defence?  Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our 
own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence* be the real object of having 
those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"    
 Patrick Henry(1736-1799)

*  "Defence" spelled with a "c" is the British way to spell defense.