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Arms Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
- It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies,…
- Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
- One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
- In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on…
- The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny…
- Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .…
- What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let…
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger…
- The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
More Arms Quotes
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out,… — Tyra Banks
- These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees… — Bob Barr
- When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. — John Barrymore
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.… — Charles Baudelaire
- For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it… — Daniel Berrigan