Huge List of The Best Gun Quotes

[nstoolman1]

Here are some good ones. A few from some people you would not suspect.

 

 

“An armed society is a polite society” – Robert A. Heinlein

“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.” -Sigmund Freud

When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. – Thomas Jefferson

 

 “I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.” – Mahatma Ghandi

 

“Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It’s quicker to pull your Smith and Wesson than to dial 911 if you’re being robbed.” – Lieutenant Lowell Duckett, President of the Black Police Caucus, Special Assistant to the Washington, D.C. Police Chief

 

He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. – Luke 22:36

 

We should not blame a gun itself for any crime or any acts of violence, any more than we can blame a pen for misspelling a word. – Senator Bennett (UT)

 

It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. – Thomas Paine.

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. – Barry Goldwater

 

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.” – George Washington

 

“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” – Dalai Lama (Seattle Times, 05-15-2001)

 

“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” – Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

“Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – George Orwell

 

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves” – Edward R. Murrow

 

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.” – Norman Thomas, American socialist

 

“The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” – Thomas Jefferson

 

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” – Rudyard Kipling

 

“That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” – George Orwell

 

While the bitter parties stifle every voice that warns of war,
 

Every man should own a rifle and have cartridges in store! – Henry Lawson

 

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

 

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. – Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria, “On Crimes and Punishment”

 

“25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it’s crazy. However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who’s crazy?” – Andrew Ford

 

“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.” – James Madison

 

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” – Thomas Jefferson

 

“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.” – Chairman Mao

 

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government” – Thomas Jefferson

 

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” – Ben Franklin, 1759

 

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” – Ronald Reagan

 

“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.” – Tacitus

 

“A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn’t own.” – Unknown

 

“When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.” – James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union

 

“The constitution of the United States asserts that all power is inherent in the people, that they may exercise it by themselves, that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed!” – Thomas Jefferson

 

“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” – Samuel Adams

 

“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.” – James Madison

 

 “It’s better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it” Christian Slater

 

“There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism — government.” – Ronald Reagan

 

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. – Thomas Jefferson

 

“We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns… When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren’t shooting at humans… we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.”
- Johnny Depp

 

” … the right to defend one’s home and one’s person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.” – Martin Luther King

 

[dog53]

"Front sight ,Center body mass Squeeze dont pull the trigger".  ---  Dog 53   

 

[Shabibilicious]

This is my weapon.  This is my gun............    

 

GO RV, and NO BV

[tankdude]

"I shot to stop the threat - then reloaded and stopped it some more..."

[DiveDeepSix]

This is my weapon.  This is my gun............    

 

GO RV, and NO BV

 

This one's for fighting this one's for ...........  

 

All great quotes and all make sense, I couldn't pick a favorite thanks for the post!  

[gymrat76541]

"When seconds count, why wait minutes for the police to arrive"

[Timberwolf3]

"The 2 most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win." 

 

 

"Make your attacker advance through a wall

of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun,

but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it,

cause it's going to be empty."  - Clint Smith

 

 

"The true Soldier fights not because

he hates what is in front of him, but because

he loves what is behind him  -  G. K. Chesterton

[Muleslayer]

"I shot to stop the threat - then reloaded and stopped it some more..."

Empty the clip

That is how THEY roll.

[Timberwolf3]

"Is LIFE so dear, or PEACE so sweet,

as to be purchaced at the price of chains

and slavery? FORBID IT, ALMIGHTY GOD!

I know not what course others may take, but

as for ME, GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!!!"

 

Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775   

[Geck]

If you want to be sure,

that the b!@#$rd is dead.

Pop him two to the chest,

and one to the head.

[yota691]

I could add and add..but this is my last one...

[tkeaton]

The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them. ~ Moshe Ben David

 

There are only 2 times when having too much ammo is a bad thing
1. you are swimming
2. you’re on fire
that’s it, any questions?

[Shabibilicious]

Did you hear about the gun enthusiast who took dance lessons?   His favorite dance is the.........Double Tap.    

 

GO RV, and NO BV