Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will… — Jeff Miller 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
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. — Ice T 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
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
What about your constitutional right to bear arms, you say. I would simply point out that you don’t have to exercise a… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
Where I stand at is on the Second Amendment where the right to bear arms is not just for hunting and fishing… — Big Boi 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
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen… — Roger Rosenblatt 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
I find it very odd that the amendment about the right to bear arms, laws that were written so long ago, still… — Jim Jarmusch 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 arms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
