Gun Quotes - Page 4

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

I got the wild style, always been a foul child, My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.

According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

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.

Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

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

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.