Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

James Rollins

Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

James Q. Wilson

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want

James Gosling

Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

George Galloway

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

Jon Meacham

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

John Cena

A lot of the artists that are coming out right now are sticking to the formula of guns, drugs, money, all that other stuff. I'm not from the 'hood, I've never been arrested, I never shot anybody, I never sold drugs,

David Johnson

This is like putting a gun in your mouth. That just illustrates the powerful hold that nicotine has on people.

Eric Bolling

People with felony convictions - pending felony convictions should not be able to buy gun, but they should be able to stay in sanctuary cities, if they're illegal, if they cross the border.

Emo Philips

Now there's a seven-day waiting period to buy a gun. Who can stay mad that long?

Orrin Hatch

If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.

Oliver Stone

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

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.

Everybody's gun shy of shabby construction because of Hurricane Charley.

There was a man sticking a gun in the window and telling me to get out of the truck,

Tom Renney

It's got to stay separate, I don't think we should jump the gun on this one either. We want people to play when they're ready and able to play. And able doesn't necessarily mean 100%.

Do I want to see a subdivision or a gun club? Honestly - I would want a gun club.

The two most important issues for me are gun rights and pro-life.

They were throwing everything at us. Their guns sounded like cannons and our guns sounded like pop guns.

Roy Rogers

They'll have to shoot me first to take my gun

It was like spraying a water gun on top of a blaze.

Alan Moore

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

Neill Blomkamp

There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.

Neill Blomkamp

I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

Neil Young

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

Mike Huckabee

What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America." When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously.

Mike Huckabee

When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.

Niall Horan

A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

Niccolo Machiavelli

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.