The
full and proper quote is:" And that the said Constitution be never
construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the
press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the
United States, who are peaceable citizens, from
keeping their own arms." ~ Samuel Adams, (February 6, 1788), reported
in Charles Hale, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1856), p. 86 (Jackie Trapp Price)