2 amendment Quote by Thomas Paine

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue…

— Thomas Paine

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

— Ovid

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to…

— Joseph Story

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent…

— Woodrow Wilson

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more…

— Colson Whitehead

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

That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people,…

— George Mason

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

— Patrick Henry

In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The right of self defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this…

— Anonymous