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 | "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed." | |
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Bill of Rights
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| "Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the
security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms,
shall not be infringed." | |
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U.S. Constitution
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| "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "An armed society is a polite society." | |
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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| "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as
they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America
cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the
people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular
troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A
military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such
as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will
possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to
resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and
oppressive." | |
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Noah Webster
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| "GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the
settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left
unadjusted." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "In war there is no substitute for victory." | |
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General Douglas MacArthur
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| "It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher
juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already
exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will
not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously
enforce these laws." | |
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Bill McCollum
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| "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "The Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people
of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own
arms." | |
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Samuel Adams
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| "The great object is that every man be armed." | |
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Patrick Henry
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| "The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not
only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado." | |
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Unknown
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| "There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he
knockes you down with the butt end of it." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don"t
deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because
I know I"m innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing
because I don"t own a gun. Now they"ve come for the first amendment, and I
can"t say anything at all." | |
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Tim Freeman
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| "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind
word alone." | |
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Al Capone
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| "[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which
Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation [where] the
governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." | |
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James Madison
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