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"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms..."
"Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen."
"What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
"It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal"
"All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way."
"The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings."
"Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"
"So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way."
"Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense."
"The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing."
"Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions."
"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."
"Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited."
"As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it."
"The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation."
"Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion."
"We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!"
"If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with."
"I believe the gun has no power at all."
"Morality begins at the point of a gun."
