Bearing arms Quote by Patrick Henry

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

— Thomas Jefferson

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

— Malcolm Wallop

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

— Ronald Reagan

We're here to defend the rights that are enshrined to us by the Constitution, as Americans.

— Sam Rasoul

The government continues to erode our freedom.

— Diane Black

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

— Breyten Breytenbach

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we…

— Marco Rubio

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

— Ronald Reagan

“If we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against our…

— Glenn Beck

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

We should not use the heavy hand of government more than it is justified.

— Tate Reeves

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you…

— George Haven Putnam