Who Said This Quote...?

Question

"The man with a firearm is a citizen, the man without is a subject"
I have tried several search engines and came up with nothing. Does anyone know who said it?

Not that I don't trust you but if you give a name could you please give a source as well.

Answer 1

"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave."
-- "Political Disquisitions", a British republican tract of 1774-1775

It was misquoted later as;

"A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject."
-- John R. Lott

My personal favorite, however, is;
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms."

--Aristotle

Answer 2

http://www.catb.org/~esr/guns/quotes.html

http://www.famous-quote.net/quotes-firearms.shtml

Those are two more sites I found with some quotes. Not yours but some good ones from real people. Yours is like the cliffs notes versions of the famous people.