Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Eoin Colfer

Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.

I heard screams and gunfire. I smelled gunpowder and I heard the groans of people dying.

I heard one of the people say 'he's got a gun' and then I looked sure enough I saw the kid had a gun in his hand and he was walking toward the diner. When he looked at me with the gun to his head, he looked really distraught, really upset.

I pulled the gun when I stood up, took two steps down the hallway and fired. His back was towards me,

Isoroku Yamamoto

You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.

Greg Ginn

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

Greg Gutfeld

In the hands of fiends, guns will kill you. In your hands, they protect against such fiends.

Greg Gutfeld

Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement.

Glenn Greenwald

There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these things about arming for tyranny. There's also a cost to letting the government say these ideas can't be expressed, this is treason. It's difficult.

Harry Browne

If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.

Harry Browne

I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong - because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience.

Condoleezza Rice

High quality aluminum tubes that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs. *** We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

The intelligence information was that this vehicle might be involved with selling guns in public housing.

Clint Eastwood

You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely.

Clare Short

We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.

Dan Brown

Langdon whispered to Vittoria. 'Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?' 'Don't you trust me?' 'Trust you? I barely know you.' Vittoria frowned. 'And here I thought we were newly-weds.

David Mamet

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

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

One gun can be used by 20 people. So even though we have 3,000 soldiers, we only have 840 guns.

We have enough gun control. What we need is idiot control.

They were interested in silencing the guns and thats it ,

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.

J. Taylor

They're packing guns and we're only packing nets.

Gene Hill

Isn’t there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal you’ve hunted has done something to make you let him vanish in the woods? … Isn’t there a bird or covey that somehow always manages to catch you with your gun on safe — even when you know it’s there? “I think we all know times that for almost certain we gave the hunt to the quarry.

Jerry Brown

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

Jerry Brown

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Glenn Reynolds

When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive that they can only succeed when people aren't thinking clearly.

GG Allin

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

George Washington

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

George Washington

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.