Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.

Ronald Reagan

This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.

Wole Soyinka

. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.

Will Rogers

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.

Will Rogers

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

Will Rogers

You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.

Wes Moore

They hit you with a knife, you find a gun

Ziggy Marley

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

William E. Simon

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

William Dean Howells

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

Yoko Ono

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

Yoko Ono

Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980,

Wyndham Lewis

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.