To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad.… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
I ask the question all the time of people that are on the anti-gun side. And I say, OK, if you're in… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
I like the NRA, but the NRA is forced to occupy a pole, the anti-gun bill people occupy another pole. And the… — John Popper Copy Share Image
Anti-gun groups, most of which are funded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have done little to promote or fund real… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the… — Diana DeGette Copy Share Image
Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that… — Aryeh Neier Copy Share Image
It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
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