Best 11 quotes in «right to bear arms quotes» category

This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

Right to Self Defense + Right to Peaceably Assemble = Militia.

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whatsoever name he may be distinguished, is entrusted with the execution of the laws, the management of the revenue, and the command of the army. But, unless public liberty is protected by intrepid and vigilant guardians, the authority of so formidable a magistrate will soon degenerate into despotism. The influence of the clergy, in an age of superstition, might be usefully employed to assert the rights of mankind; but so intimate is the connection between the throne and the altar, that the banner of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people. A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.

You mean, the people are armed?" Prince Bentrik was incredulous. "Great Satan, aren't yours?" Prince Trask was equally surprised. "Then your democracy's a farce, and the people are only free on sufferance. If their ballots aren't secured by arms, they're worthless.

Be yourself, it's the best thing you can do.

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.