Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. — George Mason Copy Share Image
The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm not anti-gun or pro-gun, but if you put a gun in your hand, you feel different. — Matt Servitto Copy Share Image
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. — Dalai Lama 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
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but… — Suzanna Hupp Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this… — Stanley Nelson Jr 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 laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be… — Cesare Beccaria 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 sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our… — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the… — Andrew Ford Copy Share Image
By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and… — John F. Kennedy 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
Enjoy it if you do, but don't tell me how to live or teach it in school, or not allow a woman… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force — Ann Coulter 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
There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement. — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. — John Adams 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
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... — 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
If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the… — Bob Schaffer 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
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person… — David Prosser Jr 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
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