Best gun & peace Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.”

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Author:William Safire

“A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God's sake, for there shall never be peace of mind for the wicked!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.”

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.”

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Author:George Harrison

“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.”

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Book:Einstein's Monsters

Source: Einstein's Monsters

“The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.”

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Author:Aristide Briand

“The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.”

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Author:Ida Tarbell

“How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.”

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Author:Alice Walker

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

“Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.”

Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)

“Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us talking about getting guns out of the schools. How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems without violence?”

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Author:Barbara Lee

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