2 amendment Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare 2 amendment Amendment 1 Amendment 13 Amendment 19 Amendment 4 Amendments Anti gun Arms Bearing arms Carrying guns Confidence Disarming Firearms Founding Founding fathers gun Founding fathers second amendment Freedom and liberty Freedom liberty Great libertarian Greater Gun Gun control Gun law Gun rights Guns in america Homicide Laws of nature Libertarian Liberty Limited government Limiting freedom Limiting government May Men Militia Our founding fathers Patriotic gun Pro gun Pro gun control Right to bear arms Rights and freedoms Second amendment Self defense Strong arms Unarmed Us founding fathers Voting founding fathers
There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get into a battle of wits with you; I never attack anyone who's unarmed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot. — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton 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
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I refuse to have a battle of wits against an unarmed opponent. Dont be so humble- you are not that great. — Superman Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — 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
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
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
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. — John Adams Copy Share Image