Charlton Heston Quotes

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• Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
• Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.
• I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible…
• What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears.…
• [President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that…
• As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's…
• There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man…
• The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people…
• I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't…
• You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the `assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people…
• It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power,…
• One way or another, if you’re persistent, fortune always smiles on you.
• A policemans job is only easy in a police state.
• The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.
• To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.
• I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.
• Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
• Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate…
• If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a…
• Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable.…

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