Gun Quotes

• There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Dangerous Man, Weapons

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

  Thomas Paine

  Cheer, Freedom, Blow

  Thomas Paine (1850). “Miscellaneous poems of that noble of nature, Thomas Paine”, p.11

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• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Men, Leader, Manipulation

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  The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, War, Bombs

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on

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• When the guns roar, the arts die.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Dies

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• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Guy, Important, Weapons

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

  Vince Vaughn

  People, Forks, Fats

  "Vince Vaughn: guns in schools will prevent mass shootings" by Benjamin Lee, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Weapons, Bearing Arms, 2 Amendment

  "The Weapon Shop". "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" Magazine, December 1942.

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• The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mistake, People, Second Amendment

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  I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Peaceful

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.

  Brad Pitt

  Country, Feel Better, Thinking

  "'I want her approval. Angie is a force... I want her to be proud of her man': Brad Pitt on guns, violence and THAT wedding". Interview with Martyn Palmer, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 8, 2012.

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• If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dalai Lama urges students to shape world" by Hal Bernton, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. May 15, 2001.

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• An armed society is a polite society.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Atheist, Society, Libertarian

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling

  Larry the Cable Guy

  People, Blame, Killing

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• The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

  Patrick Henry

  People, Second Amendment, Arms

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• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.

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• A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

  Larry Elder

  Roots, Demand, Legislation

  FaceBook post by Larry Elder from Dec 04, 2015

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• Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun.

  Jeff Cooper

  Firsts, Remember, Gun Control

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• Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

  L. Neil Smith

  Found Dead, Panty Hose, Police

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• Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Criminals, Libertarian, Right To Bear Arms

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• That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Wall, Class

  "A patriot after all, 1940-1941".

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• One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Strength, Hope

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.331

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• Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  James Madison

  Country, Government, People

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• When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.

  Bill Cosby

  Mean, Harm

  "SIMMONS: Bill Cosby weighs in on Trayvon Martin case". Interview with Deborah Simmons -, www.washingtontimes.com. April 7, 2012.

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  The 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

  Strong Arms, People, Second Amendment

  Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.

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