Gun Quotes - Page 3

• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

  James Earl Jones

  Winning, Law, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

  George Mason

  Army, People, Second Amendment

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  To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

  George Mason

  Strength, Peace, Libertarian Party

  George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.

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• To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Strong Arms, People, Liberty

  Richard Henry Lee (1978). “Letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican”, Univ of Alabama Pr

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• Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lunch, Democracies Have, Voting

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• All power is inherent in the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong Arms, People, Second Amendment

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.404

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• Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.

  St. George Tucker

  Army, Color, People

  William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.300, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

  Aristotle

  Country, Army, Differences

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• The great object is that every man be armed.

  Patrick Henry

  Father, Men, Fake

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Broccoli, Mum, If I Could

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Hate, Passion

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• Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.

  Joe Biden

  Fire, Doors, House

  "The F&S Gun Rights Interviews: Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States". Interview with Anthony Licata, www.fieldandstream.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

  Samuel Adams

  Hands, Security And Freedom, Liberty

  Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

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• We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Funny, Humorous, Hunting

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• I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, Should Have, Law

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• A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Practice, Training, Bullets

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• As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hope, Thinking, Facts

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• Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

  George Washington

  Government, Masters, Worst

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• The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  America, Government, Second Amendment

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

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• A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

  James Madison

  Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons, People

  James Madison, Gaillard Hunt, James Brown Scott (1999). “The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787: Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.690, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

  Thomas Paine

  Order, Law, Second Amendment

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

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• Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

  Andy Rooney

  Baseball, Thinking, Games

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• Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Men, Religion

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• With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

  Ronald Reagan

  Responsibility, Common Sense, Use

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• I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, Thinking, Training

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