Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joe Biden

Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.

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.

Susan Sontag

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

Susan Sontag

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

Scott Westerfeld

When the term machine gun enters common parlance, the word machine becomes much more sinister.

Ray Davies

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

Thomas Jefferson

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Thomas Jefferson

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Thomas Jefferson

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Thomas Jefferson

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Thomas Jefferson

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Rick Santorum

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

Rick Perry

Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.

Rick Perry

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

Rick Perry

I'm actually for gun control -- use both hands.

Tupac Shakur

i will live by the gun and die by the gun

Tori Amos

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

Robin Williams

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

Robin Williams

Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

Robin Williams

It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

Robert Mugabe

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

Robert Conrad

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

Rob Reiner

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

Richard Dawkins

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

Richelle Mead

A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

Vernor Vinge

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Veronica Roth

Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.