"Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen."
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"Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords."
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"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."
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"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."
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"A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."
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"I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home."
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"With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism."
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"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."
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"The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals."
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms."
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
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"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."
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"If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration."
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"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."
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"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders."
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"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."
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"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'"
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"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."
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"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children."
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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
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