Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Winogrand

I was a hired gun, more or less.

Frederick Douglass

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Francis Collins

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

Francis Ford Coppola

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Jhonen Vasquez

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

Grover Norquist

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

Gerald Celente

These are Gerald Celente's three Gs: gold, guns and a getaway plan.

Harper Lee

Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

Harper Lee

I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Gregory Peck

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

Ian Paisley

The gun is not out of Irish politics.

Hugo Black

I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.

Hugh Downs

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

Huey Newton

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Huey Newton

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Howard Zinn

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Howard Hawks

I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.

Hannah Arendt

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

Get guns lying around out of the hands of society, out of the potential hands of young people and others who might use them, ... It's a commendable program. It's working.

Gary North

Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.

Gary North

Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.

Erich Maria Remarque

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

Erich Maria Remarque

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

Everything the horse does, he does with high energy. He loves to work in the mornings. And most of all, the son of a gun likes to win.

Even if you purchase a ticket after the first of the year, you can still win. You'll be an instant winner if you look back and see you had the winning number. We have 365 guns to give away, and we'll do just that.

Some people go out in the woods with a gun to hunt. Me, I go out with a list and hunt cars.

Do you have any explanation how the gun got from the seat to the floor?

The taking of a human life is the ultimate crime. Irreversible. It does not matter to the victim of a murder whether the person holding a gun is 16 or 60.

It was the return of the young guns tonight,

The smoking gun in all this is the fungus,

This was the first time I saw guys kind of not ready to shoot the basketball. If we are wide open, I don't mind us taking 40 threes ... Our guys just looked a little gun shy.

What I want to know is why we don't have any paratroopers with machine guns on every street,

Bernie Sanders

Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.