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"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party."
"The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks"
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself."
"White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear."
"Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other."
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
"Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?"
"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
"A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer."
"Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen."
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords."
"If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence."
"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
"A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."