Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louisa May Alcott

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.

Jonathan Haidt

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.

Katey Sagal

I don't live in an outlaw world and I don't carry a gun.

Justine Bateman

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?

Justine Larbalestier

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

Owen Wister

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

Patty Hearst

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

Patty Hearst

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Paul Weyrich

How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

Paul Watson

You can't love nature with a gun

Mary McGrory

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

Marty Stuart

It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

Rachel Caine

I am never taking a trip with either of you ever again.' Eve said. 'Ever.' Excellent' Shane said. 'Then next trip, we hit the strip bar.' I have a gun, Shane,' Eve sighed. What, you think i actually loaded yours?' Eve flipped him off, and Claire laughed.

Peter Welch

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

Pete Stark

If a bill to ban handguns came to the house floor, I would vote for it.

Pete Sessions

Guns arent the problem; sick people are.

Pete Cashmore

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.

Peter M. Brant

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

Quentin Crisp

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

Prince Philip

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

Prince Philip

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

Pol Pot

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Moshe Dayan

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

Joanna Russ

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

George Mason

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

George Mason

[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.

George Mason

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

Elvis Presley

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

Joe Arpaio

Many times, when you go to arrest somebody, they pull their gun, and here I am, a federal agent, telling them to drop their gun. But the gun is like that. I give them a split second to drop it, and they drop it. I could have shot them - who is going to complain?

Joe Arpaio

This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.

Joe Biden

Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.

Joe Biden

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

Louie Gohmert

We've got some people who think Shariah law oughta be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are there, the Second Amendment is there, to make sure all of the rest of the amendments are followed.