Second Amendment Quotes

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.

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

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.