QOTD: Gunpowder Has Armed the Weak

Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile death, bodily strength, like beauty, good humor, politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction.

— Thomas Jefferson letter to John Adams, 28 October 1813.

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