02-13-2004, 07:28 PM
I've been collecting quotes that support our 2nd amendment rights to own guns. Which one is your favorite???[cool]
"A free people ought to be armed."
-George Washington
"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!"
-Sir Winston Churchill
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"If the price I must pay for my freedom is to acknowledge that the government was granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free."
-Pol Anderson
"Self-defense is Nature's eldest law."
-John Dryden
“Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
-Col. Jeff Cooper
"If you've got a gun law that criminals will obey, why not just turn it into a murder law that criminals will obey?"
-Andrew Ford
"It is because the people are civilized, that they are with safety armed."
-Joel Barlow
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it."
-Jeff Cooper
"If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective."
- Ted Nugent
"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"
-Clint Smith
[i]"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
-Benjamin Franklin
"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense."[/i]
-John Adams
"An armed society is a polite society."
-Robert Heinlein
"The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle."
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The right to buy weapons is the right to be free."
--AE Van Vogt
"That the Constitution shall never be 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..." -Samuel Adams arguing for a Bill of Rights
""No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-Thomas Jefferson
"If you look like prey, you will be eaten."
-Clint Smith
"From my cold, dead hands."
-Charlton Heston
"Gun Control means using both hands."
-Unknown
[#808000]“When citizens fear their government, you have tyranny; when the government fears it's citizens, you have freedom."[/#808000]
[#808000]-Thomas Jefferson[/#808000]
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"A free people ought to be armed."
-George Washington
"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!"
-Sir Winston Churchill
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"If the price I must pay for my freedom is to acknowledge that the government was granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free."
-Pol Anderson
"Self-defense is Nature's eldest law."
-John Dryden
“Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
-Col. Jeff Cooper
"If you've got a gun law that criminals will obey, why not just turn it into a murder law that criminals will obey?"
-Andrew Ford
"It is because the people are civilized, that they are with safety armed."
-Joel Barlow
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it."
-Jeff Cooper
"If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective."
- Ted Nugent
"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"
-Clint Smith
[i]"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
-Benjamin Franklin
"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense."[/i]
-John Adams
"An armed society is a polite society."
-Robert Heinlein
"The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle."
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The right to buy weapons is the right to be free."
--AE Van Vogt
"That the Constitution shall never be 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..." -Samuel Adams arguing for a Bill of Rights
""No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-Thomas Jefferson
"If you look like prey, you will be eaten."
-Clint Smith
"From my cold, dead hands."
-Charlton Heston
"Gun Control means using both hands."
-Unknown
[#808000]“When citizens fear their government, you have tyranny; when the government fears it's citizens, you have freedom."[/#808000]
[#808000]-Thomas Jefferson[/#808000]
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