"Bearing Arms" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Bearing Arms"

"The right to buy weapons is the right to be free."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Anti Gun #Pro Gun #Gun Control

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#People #Right To Bear Arms #Us Constitution

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms."

--- Adolf Hitler

#People #Anti Gun #Right To Bear Arms

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Anti Gun #Right To Bear Arms #Race

"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."

--- Albert Gallatin

#People #Individual Rights #Right To Bear Arms

"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

#People #Silence #Anti Gun

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."

--- Alexander Hamilton

#Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun #People

"Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed."

--- Alexander Hamilton

#People #Right To Bear Arms #Founding Fathers Gun

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government."

--- Alexander Hamilton

#Right To Bear Arms #People #Federalist

"...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms."

--- Alexander Hamilton

#People #Anti Gun #Right To Bear Arms

"This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist."

--- Alexander Hamilton

#Right To Bear Arms #Security #Standing

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."

--- Aristotle

#People #Oligarchy #Right To Bear Arms

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

--- Winston Churchill

#Peace #Fighting #War

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."

--- William S. Burroughs

#Right To Bear Arms #People #Libertarian

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."

--- William S. Burroughs

#Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun #People

"The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both."

--- William Rawle

#People #Right To Bear Arms #Legislature

"No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people."

--- William Rawle

#People #Right To Bear Arms #Constitution

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

--- William J. Clinton

#Anti Gun #Right To Bear Arms #Empathy

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

--- Benjamin Franklin

#Peace #Democracy Freedom #Right To Bear Arms

"Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself."

--- William Barclay

#Right To Bear Arms #Equality #Law

"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them."

--- Walter F. Mondale

#Right To Bear Arms #Bans #Libertarian

"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."

--- Vladimir Lenin

#Pro Gun #Leader #Gun Control

"The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising."

--- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#People #Right To Bear Arms #Possession

"The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings."

--- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#Right To Bear Arms #Possession #War

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

--- Thomas Paine

#Fear #Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

--- Thomas Paine

#Democracy Freedom #Fear #Right To Bear Arms

"The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong."

--- Thomas Paine

#Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun #Prey

"Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order."

--- Thomas Paine

#Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun #Preserves

"The balance of power is the scale of peace."

--- Thomas Paine

#Right To Bear Arms #Pro Gun #Scales

"Free men do not ask permission to bear arms"

--- Thomas Jefferson

#Asks #Libertarian #Arms

30 "Bearing Arms" Quotes