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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.

- Noah Webster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

- Thomas Jefferson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Bill McCollum Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

- Al Capone Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Jefferson's 'Commonplace Book,' 1774-1776 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.

- Thomas Jefferson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no arguing with Johnson, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

- Oliver Goldsmith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knockes you down with the butt end of it.

- Oliver Goldsmith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In war there is no substitute for victory.

- Douglas MacArthur Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To George Washington, 1796 One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

- Thomas Jefferson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The great object is that every man be armed.

- Patrick Henry Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Unknown Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Bill of Rights Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- U.S. Constitution Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

An armed society is a polite society.

- Robert Anson Heinlein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Iknow 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 firstamendment, and I can't say anything at all.

- Tim Freeman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes