Famous Sayings
"Those
who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty or
safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. The Marines don't have that problem"
- Ronald Reagan
"An
unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from
it."
- Jeff Cooper
"If guns
cause crime, all of mine are defective."
- Ted Nugent
"A free
people ought to be armed."
-George Washington
"Arms in
the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private
self-defense."
-John Adams
"Owning a
handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a
musician."
-Col. Jeff Cooper
"No
free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The right
to buy weapons is the right to be free."
-A.E. Van Vogt
"Gun
Control means using both hands."
-Unknown
"If the
price I must pay for my freedom is to acknowledge that the government was
granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free."
-Pol Anderson
"It is
because the people are civilized, that they are with safety armed."
-Joel Barlow
"An armed
society is a polite society."
-Robert Heinlein
"If you
look like prey, you will be eaten."
-Clint Smith
"Both
oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their
arms."
-Aristotle
"If you
carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun,
what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"
-Clint Smith
"Self-defense
is Nature's eldest law."
-John Dryden
"The one
weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively
is the rifle."
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Anyone who is
not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has
no brain!"
-Sir
Winston Churchill
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the
strong."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will
drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."
- President George W. Bush
“My point is that one person is responsible. Always. If
H-bombs exist – and they do – some man controls them. In terms of
morals there is no such thing as ‘state’. Just men. Individuals. Each
responsible for his own acts.”
- Robert A. Heinlein from “The Moon is a harsh Mistress”