2 amendment Quote by Patrick Henry Download Open image “The people have a right to keep and bear arms.” — Patrick Henry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare 2 amendment Amending the constitution Amendment 1 Amendments Arms Bearing arms Bears Firearms Founding fathers gun Founding fathers second amendment Framers Gun Gun ban Gun control Gun owners Gun rights Handgun ban Handguns Militia Nra People Right to bear arms Second amendment
The right to keep and bear arms is a God-given right protected by the Constitution. — Marjorie Taylor Greene Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. — Ice T Copy Share Image
It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
In the same way we all have a right to bear arms, we all have a right to live. — David Hogg Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.” — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps? — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. — George Mason Copy Share Image