Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Nobel

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

Alexander Berkman

Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.

Alexander Berkman

When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

Alcee Hastings

Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.

Aldous Huxley

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Alexander Hamilton

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

Adolf Hitler

To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.

Adam Savage

I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

Donald Rumsfeld

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Don Henley

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Clare Boothe Luce

Guns know no policy except destruction.

Dalai Lama

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

Desmond Tutu

We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.

Debbie Harry

I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.

Amber Heard

I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

Amber Heard

I've been around responsible gun ownership my whole life.

Anna Quindlen

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Claes Oldenburg

The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.

Chuck Todd

I don't get debate agains guns at all. Because we have it after every mass shooting. And now a terror attack. And the proposals that are talked about almost always have nothing to do with this specific event.

Chuck Todd

More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would've had a gun, thought about, and now is thinking about it.

Chuck Todd

The question I have heard from some Democrats saying that "You know what? Push for gun control, but not now."

Chuck Norris

I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.

Donna Brazile

The smoking gun is that we're interviewing somebody who is involved in a cybercrime and not calling him a criminal.

Donald E. Westlake

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.

Ani Difranco

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

Ann Coulter

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

Ann Coulter

In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the only public policy that reduced both the incidence and casualties of such shootings were concealed-carry laws. Not only are there 60 percent fewer gun massacres after states adopt concealed-carry laws, but the death and injury rate of such rampages are reduced by 80 percent.

Ann Coulter

It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.

Ann Coulter

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.

Andy Borowitz

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.