“The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.” PersonsGovernmentFictionAuthorityGunPoliceCellsCorporationsJailRegulators Author:Jerry Brown
“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?” MeanChildrenArtistChoicesNamesSidesDarkPoorWonderRolesRightsSubjectsGayAuthorityGunDoctorsAbsolutesExtremesFavorsToleranceAbortionGun ControlStampsImmoralPettyControversialDark SideGay RightsInvokeDetestFood StampsPoor Children Author:Barbra Streisand
“Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense.” PersonsArmsAuthorityGunDenyDefenseOffenseGun Control Author:John Adams
“The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase records. And it also becomes part of another important issue that relates to the FISA court and the rest of the debate. It almost becomes a secret law, like there are two Patriot Acts. The one you read on the laptop essentially leads you to believe that there's some connection to terror .” BelieveTwoImportantGovernmentLawSecretIssuesRecordsAuthorityGunConnectionsCourtFinancialTerrorMedicalDebateRelateCollectionsPatriotLimitlessLaptopsImportant IssuesPatriot ActMedical Records Author:Ron Wyden
“If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of their fellow man or themselves having guns, then that is someone who does not think like a free person. He places a magical aura around whoever is in charge and only thinks they can wield power. This will come up again in other areas, such as letting government make economic decisions but fearing individual people making those decisions themselves.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenPersonsDoeGovernmentIndividualDecisionEconomicLetting GoAuthorityGunAreasOkayPoliceFellowsCome UpFellow ManAuras Author:Frank J. Fleming
“The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.” GovernmentAuthorityGunAbsolutesDebateFirearms Author:Tom McClintock
“I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.” PeopleThinkingYearsWould BeSchoolGuySawsFiguresStudentsAuthorityNewsGunMy FriendsKillingScaredEveningProtestCopSixteenFiringWashington DcAuthority FiguresSixteen Year Olds Author:Gus Van Sant
“I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.” IfsKindFactsUseAmericaPurposePolicyAuthorityGunAspectOutsidersPenaltiesDeath PenaltyDomestic Policy Author:Nick Cave
“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.” PeopleFreedomLibertyDemocracyArmsAuthorityGunUltimateAmendmentsDemocracies HaveRight To Bear ArmsBearing Arms2 Amendment Author:James Madison
“Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.” StatesLawIndividualEffectsAuthorityGunMercyLocalsTyrantsGun ControlInvaders Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system;... to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics-that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.” PeopleWellsStatesRememberForceLibertySupportRightsMilitaryDangerSafeLimitsEssentialsAuthorityGunStandingConstitutionArmyUnionsLimitationRepublicGun ControlReservedCementMilitiaMilitary ForceAlways Remembering Author:James Madison