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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 29: National government must have control of state militia.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Plutarch. "Aemilius." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

Vegetius. Vegetius: Epitome of Military Science, translated by N. P. Milner. Liverpool University Press, 1997, bk. 3, preface.

Epictetus. Enchiridion, translated by George Long. Dover Publications, 2004, ch. 5.

Kafka, Franz. "Letter to Milena Jesenská, 14 Sept. 1920." Letters to Milena, translated by Philip Boehm. Schocken, 2015.

Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 29.

Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby, edited by Mark Ford. Penguin, 1999, ch. 43.

Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Notes on the Practice of Law, 1850?" Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Conversations of Goethe with Eickermann and Soret, translated by John Oxenford. Da Capo Press, 1998.