Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Manchin

Why would anybody not own a gun?

Joe Manchin

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

Nouriel Roubini

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

Norman Vincent Peale

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Emily Browning

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

Emily Dickinson

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

The deuce was important to us. Once you get up, you can kind of run and gun the rest of the game.

Tony Blankley

While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.

Tony Blair

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs...The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack.

Tony Blair

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

Simon Pegg

I defy anybody to not look cool with the guns. My granny could look cool doing that!

Renata Adler

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Robert A. Heinlein

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

Robert A. Heinlein

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

Robert A. Heinlein

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

Robert A. Heinlein

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

Tim Meadows

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

Tim Allen

I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.

Rahm Emanuel

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

Lenny Kravitz

After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.

Laurie Anderson

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

Sean Hannity

I ask the question all the time of people that are on the anti-gun side. And I say, OK, if you're in a situation like the tragedy and the murderous rage in San Bernardino and you're in a room like that, would you want somebody that knew how to use a firearm and had one with them, or if somebody breaks into your house, what are you going to do if they are armed and you are not?And there's not a good answer. There's no good answer except you're a sitting duck for the most part if you're not armed.

Si Robertson

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

Si Robertson

First it's pretty tires. Next it's pretty guns. Then the next thing you know, you're shaving your beard and wearing capri pants.

Shelley Duvall

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

Shelby Lynne

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.

L. Ron Hubbard

In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.

Lena Headey

Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time.

Larry Craig

This bill says go after the criminal, don't go after the law-abiding gun manufacturer or the law-abiding gun seller.

Larry Craig

Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun to stop a crime.

Larry Elder

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.