GUN CONTROL QUOTES FOUNDING FATHERS

“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” – Samuel Adams

“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” – Alexander Hamilton

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people’s liberty’s teeth.” – George Washington

“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” – George Mason

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined.” – George Washington

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

“The great object is that every man be armed.” – Patrick Henry

“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” – Samuel Adams

“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

“A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.” – James Madison

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” – Thomas Jefferson 500 DAYS OF SUMMER QUOTE

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.” – St. George Tucker

“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self-defense.” – John Adams

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” – Cesare Beccaria

“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic since it offers the strongest moral deterrent against the evils of governmental tyranny.” – Justice Joseph Story

“To disarm the people… is the most effectual way to enslave them.” – George Mason

“The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe.” – Thomas Paine

“Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?” – Patrick Henry

“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” – James Madison

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry

“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” – James Madison