Arms Quotes - Page 6

• One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Strength, Hope

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.331

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• No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

  James Burgh

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

  James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

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  To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

  George Mason

  Strength, Peace, Gun

  George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.

  Unknown

  Freedom, Taken, Gun

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• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Military, War, Race

  "A Conversation With Daniel Berrigan". Interview with Alan Fox, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

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• These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, People, Made

  "The Truth about Christopher Columbus" by Mark Anthony Rolo, progressive.org. October 9, 2017.

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• It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

  Sammy Hagar

  Good Things, Enjoy, Enjoying My Life

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• It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Children, Feelings, Most Amazing

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• I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

  Andy Rooney

  Iran, Wish, Literature

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• I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

  Sigourney Weaver

  New York, Cities, Community

  "Sigourney Weaver for 'Tadpole'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

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• The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mistake, Race, Gun Control

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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. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against 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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• When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Fighting, Talking

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". Article by Geoffrey Dickens, bash.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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• The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

  James Madison

  Bears, Defense, Citizens

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• I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Character, Muscles

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• There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Can Do

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

  Alva Myrdal

  War, Tools, Rivals

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Love, Peace, Gun

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• The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally ... enable the people to resist and triumph over them.

  Joseph Story

  Country, Strong, People

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.746

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• If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

  Juan Marichal

  Strong, League, Giving

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• The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

  John Boyd Orr

  Appreciate, Territory, Empires

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• What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

  John Guare

  Heart, Eye, Two

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• But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Heart, Race

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

  Robert Stack

  Lucky, Als, Capone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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