![I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-learn-with-great-concern-that-one-portion-of-our-frontier-so-interesting-so.jpg)
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gun assault-weapons looks
The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing. Alan Keyes
gun self law
The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.
gun pro-life pro-gun
I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business. Charlie Crist
gun night thinking
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers can carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night. Charles Stross
gun tests auditions
Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail. Brady Corbet
gun years gun-control
So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year. Dianne Feinstein
gun banned if-i-could
If I could have banned them all...I would have!
gun america fundamentals
Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.
gun second-amendment needs
The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.
fire sweatshops would-be
SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed. Carl Andre
fire ground line people saw toward
What the people on the ground saw was that line of fire proceeding back toward the fuselage. That's what they thought was a missile. Lee Kreindler
fire name people
When you say the name Ostertag, ... people are just spittin' fire.
fire house lawyer
The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft." Alan King
fire simplicity world
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. Charles Dudley Warner
fire skins spirituality
Under the skin, intense fires burn. Charles de Lint
fire age youth
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. Charles Caleb Colton
fire liberty purpose
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.
fire forever steel
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
interesting information cost
The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost. Carlos Ghosn
interesting cameras needs
I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting. Charlie Chaplin
interesting pieces surprise
Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita
interesting chinese thrive
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
interesting office being-ignored
Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous. Ricky Gervais
interesting france brilliant
Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant Brian De Palma
interesting listening levels
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting. Brian Eno
interesting feelings might
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
interesting trying hitting
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.