Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-1] of 1 State Gazette (Charleston) quotesState Gazette (Charleston) QuotesState Gazette (Charleston) No free government was ever founded or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state.... Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.~ State Gazette (Charleston) Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print