"An armed society is a polite society."
He may have been quoting someone else - I thought so, but it's the earliest attribution I can find.
A slightly expanded quote reads -
"Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
This leads me to a sign a friend saw and photographed at the entrance to a Central Texas barbeque restaurant -
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