Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Louie Gohmert

There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

Louie Gohmert

I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office...

Mao Zedong

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

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.

Elayne Boosler

My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

John Dingell

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

John Oliver

According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following [the minor] and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, 'Well, look: you did what you could.'

John McCrae

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

Joel Edgerton

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

Joe Jordan

gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system.

Jimmy Fallon

Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced that it raised over $1.5 million in the 24 hours after he announced his bid. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old on Kickstarter just raised $7 million in five minutes after announcing his idea for juice box water guns.

Gabrielle Giffords

We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.

James McBride

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.

James Monroe

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

James Madison

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed

James Madison

Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.

James Madison

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.

James M. Cain

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

Jim Morrison

They got the guns, but we got the numbers.

Emmanuel Jal

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

Emmanuel Jal

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Emma Goldman

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

John McGinnis

Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them.

John Lennon

Don't need a gun to blow your mind

John Lennon

Happiness is a warm gun.

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.