Bearing Arms Quotes - Page 5

• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Gun, Men, Leader

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• You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Gun Control, Second Amendment

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• In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

  James Madison

  Power, Men, Liberty

  The Federalist no. 51 (1788)

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• A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, War, Military

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• The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Second Amendment

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• The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, Tyrants, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.268

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• God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Second Amendment, Twenties

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.318

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Believe, Power

  Speech at Virginia Convention, 5 June 1788

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• Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

  Silas House

  Graduation, Libertarian, Just Being

  Silas House (2010). “Eli the Good”, p.96, Candlewick Press

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• The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  War, Uprising, Gun Rights

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• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

  Joseph Story

  Gun, Tyrants, People

  Joseph Story (1865). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers”, p.264

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• We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.

  Charles Schumer

  Gun, Nightmare, Nra

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• I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Baby, Gun, Killing

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• Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Gun, Self, Law

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  The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

  James Monroe

  Gun, Self, Presidential

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• [The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

  Joel Barlow

  Gun, Men, Hands

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• Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Gun, Order, Want

  "Surgeon General’s Warning" by Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.

  Sammy Gravano

  Gun, Winning, Safety

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• Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

  Chuck Norris

  Graduation, Art, Children

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• Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Gun, Criminals, Libertarian

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• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Mistake, Gun, Rights

  "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

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• We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.384, Cambridge University Press

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• I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atmosphere, Storm, Littles

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1135, Library of America

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• This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Army, Second Amendment, Right To Bear Arms

  John Church Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton (1860). “History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and of His Contemporaries”, p.140

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• My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

  Patrick Henry

  War, Mean, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Samuel Bryan, Patrick Henry (2017). “The Federalist Papers & Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Edition of the Pivotal Constitution Debate: Including Articles of Confederation (1777), Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights & Other Amendments – All With Founding Fathers’ Arguments & Decisions about the Constitution”, p.74, Madison & Adams Press

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