2 amendment Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “The balance of power is the scale of peace.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare 2 amendment Arms Balance Balance of power Bearing arms Founding fathers gun Founding fathers second amendment Gun rights Peace Power Pro gun Right to bear arms Scales Second amendment
If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting,… — John Bright 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
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace. — Frank Fools Crow Copy Share Image
Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Traditionally we associate power with the display of strength, winning, and having lots of money and prestige. I think we have power mixed up… — Yasmin Davar Copy Share Image
“There must be, not a balance of power but a community power; not organized rivalries but a organized, common peace.” — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine 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
