Best gun & gun-control Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.”

“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

“To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”

“They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?”

Want Care Politics Liberty Gun Universal Libertarian Communism Health Care Libertarianism Gun Control Cuba Universal Health Care

Author:Paul Harvey

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

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993

“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.”

Needs Government Care Individual Views Taken Citizens Politician Gun Crowds Socialism Productive Controlled Amendments Gun Control Trustworthy Second Amendment Pro Gun Unruly

Author:Suzanna Hupp

“The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.”

“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.”

Source: An Additional number of letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican, leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention: to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters. Together with Oberservations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian patriot

“Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics who are armed and dangerous. And then he called for prayers in the schools and an end to gun control.”

Way Ends School Life Is Religious Prayer Groups Dangerous Gun Radical Gun Control Threatened Fanatics Religious Fanatics

Author:Jay Leno

“An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.”

Men Evil Military Gun Overcoming Gun Control Fleeing Pro Gun Unarmed

Author:Jeff Cooper

“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.”

“This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.”

Matter Crime Prove Weapons Gun Importance Safety Criminals Dry Statistics Legislation Gun Control Assault Public Safety Dry Up Assault Weapons Pro Gun Control Assault Weapons Ban

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.”

Believe Home Needed Citizens Weapons Gun Machines Defense Hunting Gun Control Rifles Machine Guns Ak 47 Pro Gun Control

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.”

Should Self Use Form Certain Gun Defense Gun Control Self Defense Ammunition

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.”

Use Common Responsibility Arms Bears Gun Common Sense Gun Control Caution Right To Bear Arms Handguns Great Responsibility

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.”

Years Doe Justice Levels Violence Gun Suicide Average Committed Department Statistics Gun Control Assault Robbery Handguns

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.”

Thinking Certain Taken Amount Training Gun Gun Control Restriction

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.”

Thinking Wells Gun Gun Control

Author:Ronald Reagan

“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.”

People Purpose Arms Ordinary Gun Accomplish Resistance Tyrants Offense Gun Control Self Defense Right To Bear Arms Bearing Arms Gun Rights Pro Gun 2 Amendment Disarming

Book: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

Source: 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

“Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.”