Second Amendment Quotes
Second Amendment Quote of the day
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.
Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.
The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.
The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?
The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.
Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.
All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.
I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.
If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.
The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.
Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.
The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.
I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
In the Second Amendment, it's not about hunting, it's not about target shooting, it's about protecting your home and your family and your life.
I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.
We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.
