Second Amendment Quotes - Page 8

• Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

  Tryon Edwards

  Commitment, Loss, Sacrifice

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.224, Ravenio Books

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• The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

  Laurence Tribe

  Home, Self, People

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• The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Success, Truth, Liars

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Government, Liberty, Want

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• Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And, if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.

  Cass Sunstein

  Gun, Views, Doe

  "Founding Fathers vs. Today's Progressives" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2009.

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• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Mistake, Gun, Rights

  "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.

  James Madison

  Rights, Order, Liberty

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.468

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• There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Running, Gun, Movement

  "MSNBC Contributor Reid Ridiculously Slams Gun Rights Movement as 'Neo-Confederate'". www.newsbusters.org. August 20, 2013.

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• Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Religious, Gun, Thinking

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• Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.

  Huey Newton

  Taken, Men, Gun

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• One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, America, Victory

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• As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Men, Marching On, Lilies

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• A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Men, Dawn

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• The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Gun, Modern, Amendments

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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

  Jeff Cooper

  Queens, Rifles, Weapons

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• Dr. King kept guns in his home to protect himself and his family. After firebombing and numerous death threats by racists, his application for a permit to carry a gun was denied by the 'may issue' white power structure (Democrat) in that time and place. Let the holiday that celebrates this man’s life include some reflection on the importance of the Second Amendment.

  Massad Ayoob

  Kings, Holiday, Home

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• I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Saving, Conflict

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Rights, Weapons

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• We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

  Barack Obama

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.politico.com

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• All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Voters, Firsts

  "NRA official: Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term". www.washingtontimes.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.

  Erwin Griswold

  Strong, Gun, Law

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• It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, School, Gun

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• Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

  Donald Trump

  America, Amendments

  Source: genius.com

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• The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.

  Donald Trump

  People, Arms, Bears

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from May 21, 2016

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• The Second Amendment is in the Constitution to help citizens protect themselves from people like Senator Dianne Feinstein who would come along, and if they could determine what words you can and cannot say, where and where you can't say them. The Constitution is there to protect you from mayors like Mike Doomberg who wants to tell you how big your beverage can be.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Helping, Constitution

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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