Famous Second Amendment Quotes

"Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes promoted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours." - Robert Ardrey, African Genesis, p. 331 (paperback)

"Gun control is a solution conceived in hysteria, born in ignorance, intended to foster complacency, and destined to futility." - Sen. Warren Magnusson

"Gun control is the sweetest gravy train of free publicity ever invented." - Sen. Thomas Dodd (D-CT), author of GCA 68 (much of which he copied almost verbatim from Hitler’s Nazi gun control law of 1938)

"Gun control? It’s the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I’m a bad guy, I’m always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You pull the trigger with a lock on, and I’ll pull the trigger. We’ll see who wins." - Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Mafia turncoat, when asked about gun control in a 1999 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

"We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire the rights they have transmitted to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed." - Junius, letter in London Publick Advertiser, 1769

"A ‘right’ cannot be regulated. It is part of the power the people refuse to give a government." - FCC Chairman Newton Minow

"A right is not what some one gives you; it's what no one can take from you.- Ramsey Clark, US Atty Gen (NYTimes, 2 Oct 77)

"We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.- President Bill Clinton

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt

"If I could, I would ban them all." - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1952)

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceful citizens from keeping their own arms." - Samuel Adams

"The great object is that every man be armed." - Patrick Henry

"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson

"The right of the citizen to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic ... a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers..." - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. . . . The right of the citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny, which now appears remote in America, that historically has proven to be always possible." - Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey

"The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment ... as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner." - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 1982

"In a world in which predators exist, it is necessary forthe non-predators to have the means of defending themselves. ... Peope think if they ban ownership of weapons, evil will go away. Wrong. They think government can protect them. Wrong. Wishful thinkers often end up as prey." - Charley Reese

"We must get rid of all the guns." - Handgun Control Inc. (HCI) Chairman Sarah Brady

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