Second Amendment Quotes - Page 6

• You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as 'assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Assault Weapons, People

  Fox News Channel Interview, September 15, 1997.

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• When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Government, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.694, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• How 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 Hupp

  Taken, Gun, Government

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• [T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

  Antonin Scalia

  Pride, Army, Gun

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• People that believe in the Second Amendment and believe in it very strongly were very upset with what Hillary Clinton had to say.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, People, Upset

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Order, Law, Louisiana

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• When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.

  Tim Freeman

  Gun, Collecting Things, Drug

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• Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail.

  Doug Bandow

  Mean, Gun, Law

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• In the Second Amendment, it's not about hunting, it's not about target shooting, it's about protecting your home and your family and your life.

  Ted Cruz

  Home, Hunting, Target

  Source: time.com

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• The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Unarmed, Defenseless

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• Where I stand at is on the Second Amendment where the right to bear arms is not just for hunting and fishing and things like that. But it's the right of the American people to have a means of defense against a tyrannical government. So, sometimes you got to have that back-up plan.

  Big Boi

  Mean, Hunting, Government

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• The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

  Bob Schaffer

  Gun, Government, People

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• The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national defense; and (3) preservation of individual liberty.

  Don Kates

  Philosophical, Gun, Self

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• As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Men, Marching On, Lilies

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• A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Men, Dawn

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• The Democrats are between a rock and a hard place on it. They hate the Second Amendment. They want to get rid of it, but if they come out and say that they will lose the election, so they have to lie, as Hillary Clinton did. "I'm for the Second Amendment. I've been upstate in New York and I've seen those weird things these guys use when they hunt, and I'm not opposed to that, but the Heller decision and toddlers and Washington and I protected children and I think it's horrible."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Lying, Hate

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We need a Supreme Court that in my opinion is going to uphold the Second Amendment, and all amendments, but the Second Amendment, which is under absolute siege.

  Donald Trump

  Siege, Needs, Opinion

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• My view is that we have the Second Amendment rights to bear arms, and in this country my view is that we should not add new legistlation. I do not believe in new laws restricting gun ownership and gun use.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Believe, Gun

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• The Scalia seat is defense. We're not going to get any better than Justice Scalia. The best we can do is preserve constitutional victories like upholding the Second Amendment, like protecting religious liberty. But we're not going to get any better.

  Ted Cruz

  Religious, Justice, Victory

  Source: time.com

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• When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Home, Army, Men

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• In my view, if the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that Amendment was very important when the nation was new, it gave a qualified right to keep and bear arms but it was for one purpose only, and that was the purpose of having militiamen who were able to fight to preserve the nation.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Fighting, Views, Important

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• The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be at the ready, therefore the right to keep and bear arms must be secured.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Needs, Arms, Bears

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• The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Men, Principles

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• We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Gun, Hunting

  "Social media abuzz over Piers Morgan vs. Alex Jones" by Josh Levs, Ben Brumfield, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2013.

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