Second Amendment Quotes - Page 7

• I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

  Michael Nutter

  Thinking, Firsts, First Amendment

  Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.86, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Thinking, Rights

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• The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Success, Truth, Liars

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

  Sharron Angle

  Politics, Vote, Problem

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2010.

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• It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Years, People

  "Angle Admits That Her Suggestion to Shoot Harry Reid Was “A Little Strong.” by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mean, Gun, Safety

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• As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.

  Charlton Heston

  War, Gun, Issues

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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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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• From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

  Thomas Paine

  Cheer, Freedom, Blow

  Thomas Paine (1850). “Miscellaneous poems of that noble of nature, Thomas Paine”, p.11

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• One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, America, Victory

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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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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

  Jeff Cooper

  Queens, Rifles, Weapons

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Gun, Modern, Amendments

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• Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And, if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.

  Cass Sunstein

  Gun, Views, Doe

  "Founding Fathers vs. Today's Progressives" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2009.

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• Dr. King kept guns in his home to protect himself and his family. After firebombing and numerous death threats by racists, his application for a permit to carry a gun was denied by the 'may issue' white power structure (Democrat) in that time and place. Let the holiday that celebrates this man’s life include some reflection on the importance of the Second Amendment.

  Massad Ayoob

  Kings, Holiday, Home

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• Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.

  John Fugelsang

  Jesus, Church, Baptists

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• The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.

  John Longenecker

  Amendments, Overall Health, Indicators

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• Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

  Heather Wilson

  Fighting, Pro Life, Republican

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• The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Arms, Bears

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• I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, People, Common Sense

  "CBS Evening News" with Katie Couric, www.fantasy.theshowbuzz.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Support, Arms

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't just remove that right. You've got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Arms, Bears

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Dust, Law

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• A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms.

  Samuel Ray Cummings

  Support, Analysis, Arms

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