Weapons Quotes

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Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if… — Laozi
In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to… — Kofi Annan
We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. — Mao Zedong
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
I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I… — Ronald Reagan
Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there… — George Orwell
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much… — Colin Greenwood
Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An… — Edward Abbey
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men. — Ronald Reagan
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want… — William S. Burroughs
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically… — L. Neil Smith
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 the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would… — Rudyard Kipling
Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to do on weekdays. — Stephen Colbert
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
We would like to see, in the future, what we will probably call needs-based licensing of all weapons. ...Where it would make it much more… — Sarah Brady
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam. — Oliver Stone
The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. — Charles Krauthammer
And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained… — Dianne Feinstein

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