Arms Quotes - Page 7

• By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Father, Military

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• Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.

  Norma McCorvey

  Father, Holocaust, Looks

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• Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

  Terry Southern

  Country, Gdp, World

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• People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.

  Tia Carrere

  People, Want, Chests

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

  William Rawle

  Gun, People, Giving

  William Rawle (1829). “A view of the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.125

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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. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

  James Burgh

  Gun, Thinking, People

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

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• The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

  John Adams

  Law, Support, Second Amendment

  John Adams (1794). “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778”, p.475

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• Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

  Terry Pratchett

  Light, Darkness, Ankh

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.291, Random House

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• If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Courage, Strong, People

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Nothing To Lose, Manage

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.81, Hamilton Books

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• I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lonely, Loneliness, Night

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pride, Sausage, Wells

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.72, Random House

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• My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

  Ernest Hemingway

  World, Used, Havens

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.151, Hamilton Books

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• I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cheese, Farewell To Arms, Eating

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.38, Hamilton Books

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• The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either, or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Gun, Democracies Have

  "America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights".

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Coward, Valiant

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• We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

  William J. Clinton

  Gun, Rights, Government

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.223, Best Books on

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• I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

  George Mason

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Brave, Coward

  "Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics".

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• If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Self, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (2018). “America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights”, p.199, First Avenue Editions

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• The balance of power is the scale of peace.

  Thomas Paine

  Balance, Second Amendment, Gun Rights

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Gun, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

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• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Gun, Law

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• 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
  those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will
  respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse
  for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to
  encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
  greater confidence than an armed man.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Men, Gun, Law

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