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This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics… — Ronald Reagan
The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed… — Jeff Cooper
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with… — Malcolm Wallop
In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the… — Ann Coulter
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not… — Charles Krauthammer
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the… — William J. Clinton
The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. — Charles Krauthammer
Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing… — L. Neil Smith
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus… — Arthur Koestler
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and… — Benito Mussolini
There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on… — Kim Campbell
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of… — Alexander Hamilton
You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But… — Celia Cruz
Scottish golf is a more public game. It is more reasonably priced and they play faster. It isn't cart golf. The only reason resorts force… — Daniel J. King
Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf. — Brent Musburger
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the… — Robert McNamara
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas,… — Noam Chomsky
By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As… — John Bagot Glubb
I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm hands upon me… — Jenny Jay
They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. — Nancy Chodorow
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. — John Hickenlooper
Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an… — Barack Obama
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with… — James Madison

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