Gun Quotes - Page 2

• The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, People, Fake

  "The Federalist Papers". Book by Alexander Hamilton, essay No. 69, 1787 - 1788.

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, British Rule In India, Political

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

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  I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Want, Policy

  "RJ Eskow: Confessions of a Gun Lover". Huffington Post, April 18, 2007.

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• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, Government

  Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Plowing, Right To Bear Arms, Self Defense

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• As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Long, Want, Law Abiding Citizen

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  After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

  William S. Burroughs

  Military, People, Police

  "The War Universe". Grand Street, No. 37, 1991.

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• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  America, Government, Safety

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.

  Ronald Reagan

  Assault Weapons, Dry Up, Safety

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• I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

  George Mason

  People, Second Amendment, Liberty

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• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  Ted Nugent

  Country, Children, Alcohol

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• For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Strong Arms, Liberty

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• You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Men, Arms, Execution

  Letter to G. F. Fyodorov, August 09, 1918. "Collected Works", Volume 35,

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  Patrick Henry

  Giving Up, 4th Of July, Jealous

  Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

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• I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Home, Hunting

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Sheep, Liberty, Lions

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• The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

  Daniel Webster

  Freedom, Libertarian Party, People

  Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings”, p.30

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• It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Views, Long

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• To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

  Ted Nugent

  Mind, World, Violence

  Ted Nugent (2000). “God, guns, and rock 'n' roll”, Regnery Press

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Army, Europe

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opportunity, Class, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.465, Jaico Publishing House

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• ...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Army, Law, People

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• According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.

  Gary Kleck

  Mean, Justice, Political

  "Policy Lessons From Recent Gun Control Research". Article by Gary Kleck, 1986.

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• No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

  William Rawle

  People, Giving, Second Amendment

  William Rawle (1829). “A view of the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.125

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