Arms Quotes

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  A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

  James Madison

  Country, People, Liberty

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  Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Romantic, Positivity

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Tyrants, People

  Aristotle (1971). “On Man in the Universe”

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  Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving On, Letting Go, Spiritual

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  The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

  Samuel Adams

  Gun, Strong Arms, People

  Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.

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• Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, Aggravation, Second Amendment

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Humorous, Race

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• The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Witty

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

  Richard Henry Lee

  4th Of July, Men, Gun

  Richard Henry Lee, Mercy Otis Warren (1962). “An Additional number of letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican, leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention: to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters. Together with Oberservations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian patriot”

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• Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] 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

  Gun, Men, Strong Arms

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• The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

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• As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Opportunity, America, Today

  "Schwarzenegger announces bid for governor". www.cnn.com. August 7, 2003.

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• In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms... If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.

  Stephen Halbrook

  Writing, Gun, Rights

  "That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right". Book by Stephen Halbrook, 1984.

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• Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

  Ron Paul

  Peace, War, I Hate You

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• Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Gun

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• I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

  Zebulon Pike

  League, Three, Four

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.268

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• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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• Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

  Anwar Sadat

  Pregnancy, History, Giving

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• I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

  Voltaire

  Lying, Feet, Should

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• A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

  James Madison

  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

  James Madison, Gaillard Hunt, James Brown Scott (1999). “The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787: Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.690, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Freedom, Independent, Gun

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

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• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  Tammy Wynette

  Love, Men, Two

  "Stand by Your Man" (song) (1968). Cowritten with Billy Sherrill.

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• There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

  Joel Barlow

  Gun, Use, Disadvantages

  Joel Barlow (1796). “The Political Writings of Joel Barlow ... A New Edition Corrected”, p.24

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• The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Gun, America, Government

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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