Gun Control Quotes

364 Gun Control quotes by 198 unique authors

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. — Daniel Webster
If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is… — Harvey Weinstein
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy. — Juan Williams
A free people ought...to be armed — George Washington
A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. — Sigmund Freud
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. — Dalai Lama
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that… — George Orwell
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as… — Theodore Roosevelt
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset… — Ted Nugent
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to… — Mark Twain
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security. — Norman Vincent Peale
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference… — Patrick Henry
An armed society is a polite society. — Robert A. Heinlein
Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt… — Jen Lancaster
You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right.… — Chris Rock
The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. — Thomas Jefferson
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who… — Adolf Hitler
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. — Benjamin Franklin
To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens. — Adolf Hitler
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? — Paul Harvey
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of… — Jeffrey Toobin
I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However,… — Colleen Hanabusa
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. — Joe Wurzelbacher
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated. — Joe Wurzelbacher
When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to… — Robert Dallek

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