Bear Arms Quotes
66 quotes by 52 authors
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right…
— Bob Barr
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government…
— Harry Browne
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Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...
— Simone Weil
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms…
— Harry Browne
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With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.
— Ronald Reagan
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Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and…
— John Ashcroft
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By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our…
— John F. Kennedy
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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…
— Charlton Heston
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The people have a right to keep and bear arms.
— Patrick Henry
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It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the…
— Antonin Scalia
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If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry…
— David Prosser, Jr.
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The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
— James Madison
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Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though…
— John F. Kennedy
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That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained…
— George Mason
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The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not…
— Malcolm X
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And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms
— Rosie O'Donnell
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I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate…
— Johnny Cash
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not…
— Robert A. Heinlein
Who Wrote These Bear Arms Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 66 Bear Arms Quotes, led by these top contributors: