Second Amendment Quotes

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.

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

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 unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.

Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them.

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

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.

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.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

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.

The balance of power is the scale of peace.

The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

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.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

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.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia.

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

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

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.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And, if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.

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.

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.

I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

I respect the Second Amendment. But I believe there should be comprehensive background checks, and we should close the gun show loophole, and close the online loophole.