Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-06-07 Jun 7, 2022Because this right [of self-defense] cannot be effectively exercised with bare hands, the right to keep and bear arms is the only efficient way to secure the fundamental right of self-defense.~ Robert DowlutOne sword keeps another in the sheath.~ George HerbertThe prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.~ William Rawle Jun 6, 2022Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.~ James MadisonThe right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government.~ Joyce Lee MalcolmHow a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.~ Suzanna Gratia Hupp Jun 3, 2022Here's my credo. There are no good guns, There are no bad guns. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone, except bad people.~ Charlton HestonA sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaA lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.~ Mario Puzo Jun 2, 2022And I cannot see, why arms should be denied to any man who is not a slave, since they are the only true badges of liberty.~ Andrew FletcherAn unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.~ Jeff CooperTo prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm ... is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.~ Wilson v. State Jun 1, 2022The 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 JonasBut to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. ... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding.~ Jeffrey R. SnyderWaiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.~ Janet Reno Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print