Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 133 Disarmament quotesDisarmament QuotesDisarmament Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.~ Thomas Jefferson No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.~ Thomas Jefferson Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.~ Thomas Jefferson The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.~ Zachariah Johnson The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.~ George Jonas Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.~ Don B. Kates, Jr. Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.~ George F. Kennan Certainly there are examples of countries where the people remain relatively free after the people have been disarmed, but there are no examples of a totalitarian state being created or existing where the people have personal arms.~ Neal Knox To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.~ Richard Henry Lee A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Destroy the family, you destroy the country.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers (Communist) and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class).~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin If the rest of the country had adopted right-to-carry concealed-handgun provisions in 1992, about 1,500 murders and 4,000 rapes would have been avoided.~ John R. Lott, Jr. Tell the American people never to lose their guns. As long as they keep their guns in their hands, whatever happened here [China] will never happen there.~ Donald S. MacAlvaney Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.~ General Douglas MacArthur Wars are caused by undefended wealth.~ General Douglas MacArthur When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.~ Niccolo Machiavelli Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised....~ Niccolo Machiavelli An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.~ James Madison Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print