Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Banneker

Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

Benito Mussolini

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

Benito Mussolini

The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.

Barry Hannah

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

Carl Sandburg

out of great Russia came three dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die for: Bread, Peace, Land.

Dana Milbank

By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

Craig Ferguson

Anyway, if you needed something really dangerous, get a gun. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's the American way.

Eli Roth

I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

ASAP Rocky

Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang Transition to a Lamborghini from a Mustang Drugs slang in the drug game with the hustling (I know one thing) Anything is better than that 1 train

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!

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.

Andy Borowitz

Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

Andrea Gibson

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

A. E. van Vogt

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

We are not going in with guns blazing; I've told my people that. We are disciplined first. We'll respond appropriately to whatever we face.

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.

Sylvester Croom

I thought we got better every day defensively. And we made improvement offensively. We had some big guns out most of the spring.

Jeff Lemire

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

Robert Logan

I think that it's jumping the gun a little bit,

Anton LaVey

The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded.

Vladimir Lenin

A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.