Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control."

~ George L. Roman  

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

~ George Mason  

"... in all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms -- and these the best and the sharpest -- for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur."

~ James Paterson  

"I am one who believes that as a first step the U.S. should move
expeditiously to disarm the civilian population, other than police
and security officers, of all handguns, pistols and revolvers ...
no one should have a right to anonymous ownership or use of a gun."

~ Prof. Dean Morris  

"Waiting periods are only a step.
Registration is only a step.
The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."

~ Janet Reno  

"What good does it do to ban some guns.
All guns should be banned."

~ Howard Metzenbaum  

"To preserve liberty,
it is essential
that the whole body of the people
always possess arms and be taught alike,
especially when young,
how to use them."

~ Richard Henry Lee  

"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device
to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Questionable)  

"Americans need never fear their government
because of the advantage of being armed,
which the Americans possess over the people
of almost every other nation."

~ James Madison  

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."

~ Adolf Hitler  

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."

~ Hubert H. Humphrey  

"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for the people
to retain their right to keep and bear arms
is as a last resort to protect themselves
against tyranny in government."

~ Thomas Jefferson (False)  

"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress
to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens
from keeping their own arms."

~ Samuel Adams  

"After a shooting spree,
they always want to take the guns
away from the people
who didn't do it.
I sure as hell
wouldn't want to live in a society
where the only people
allowed guns
are the police and the military."

~ William S. Burroughs  

"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right
of all Americans to feel safe."

~ Dianne Feinstein