Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Here's my credo. There are no good guns, There are no bad guns.
A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing.
Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone,
except bad people."

~ Charlton Heston  

"A sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more
than a hundred men with guns."

~ Mario Puzo  

"And I cannot see, why arms should be denied to any man who is not a slave, since they are the only true badges of liberty."

~ Andrew Fletcher  

"An unarmed man can only flee from evil,
and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it."

~ Jeff Cooper  

~ Wilson v. State  

"The issue isn't gun control but state control --
obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ...
Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others
end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties."

~ George Jonas  

"But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. ... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding."

~ Jeffrey R. Snyder  

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

~ Janet Reno  

"Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"The measures adopted to restore public order are:
First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ...
They were elements of disorder and subversion.
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to
confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.
This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy,
has given satisfactory results."

~ Benito Mussolini  

"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately ... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon ... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government."

~ SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz  

"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look
upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you,
it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."

~ Dalai Lama  

"From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms!
Through the land let the sound of it flee;
Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer,
In defense of our Liberty Tree."

~ Thomas Paine