Law Abiding Citizen Quotes

• 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

  Gun, Winning, Law

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

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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. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection -- the protection of a weapon in his home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Home, Gun, Law

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.388, Best Books on

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• We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

  Jamie Foxx

  Decision, Decision Making, Made

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• Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

  Rick Perry

  Law, Abiding, Citizens

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• If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

  John Dingell

  Rights, Law, Second Amendment

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  The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

  Ayn Rand

  Wisdom, Power, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.334, Hamilton Books

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• The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Keys, Law

  "The great gun control fallacy" by Thomas Sowell, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Gun, Thug

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan".

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  Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Life, Strength, Teacher

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

  Richard Perle

  Confused, Invisibility Cloak, Law

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• A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Respect

  Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)

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• You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

  Michael Steele

  Country, Gun, Law

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• First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

  Alexander Lebed

  Law, People, Entrepreneur

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• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  Gary Bauer

  Hurt, Mistake, Law

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• The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Hands, Order

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.137, VM eBooks

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• It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Abiding, You Think You Know

  "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

  Wesley Snipes

  New York, Law, Citizens

  "Actor Wesley Snipes reports to prison to begin sentence" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2010.

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• The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns.

  Alan Keyes

  Mean, Gun, Law

  Alan Keyes during U.S. Senate debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters in Illinois, www.keyesarchives.com. October 21, 2004.

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• It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

  Denzel Washington

  Abiding, Prove, Knows

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• It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

  Rick Scott

  Government, Self, Law

  "Gov. Rick Scott rejects request to ban concealed weapons outside GOP convention in Tampa", www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2012.

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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

  Gun, Long, Want

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• I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

  Steven Seagal

  Thinking, Law, People

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• Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Taken, Gun, Law

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• I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt.

  Benjamin Watson

  Law, Racism, Doubt

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.14, NavPress

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• I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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