Famous Quotes About Firearms

[jwink]

Guns and parachutes have this one thing in common, if you need one and don't have one, it is very likely that you'll never need one again.

 

[M14AMU]

"Where did those damn Indians get all those Henry and Spencer rifles?"

General George Custer

 

[TimP]

See my signature below.

 

[potatoe]

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.

 

[dedogs]

Nothing is more invigorating than to be shot at without effect. Winston Churchill

 

[Lapua40X]

Guns don't kill people; people kill people.

If you hate guns and don't believe in God, keep this in mind.
When a villain breaks into your home in the middle of the night, the first thing you will do is call someone with a gun. The second thing you will do is pray he gets to you before the villain does.

 

[Changeling]

This is the one that sticks in my mind even now.

NO, you can't have a 375 H&H magnum, you're only 11 years old !

 

[Eddie Harren]

"A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject."

 

[LawrenceHanson]

I like that one Eddie...never heard it before but it fits in great with this post.

Thanks,
Lawrence

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth”.
George Washington – First US President

 

[Lapua40X]

Legendary .............

 

[ShootDots]

Legendary .............

"Have Gun will travel reads the card of a man. A Knight without armor in a Savage land"! I loved and still love the show!

 

[LawrenceHanson]

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”― Benjamin Franklin

 

[Outrider27]

"A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject."

The source I am familiar with is John R. Lott; it is a modern take on the following, taken from "Political Disquisitions", a British republican tract of 1774-1775:

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

Mike

 

[snakepit]

The movie Full Metal Jacket was full of good rifle quotes with the "Rifleman's Creed" being one of them.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XaPxYWi-roM

 

[slm9s]

Q: I see you are carrying a pistol. Are you expecting trouble?

A: No. If I was expecting trouble, I'd be carrying a rifle.

 

[barefooter56]

Rifles are what you fight with,while pistols are best employed to fight your way to a rifle.
Clint Smith-

 

[40X Guy]

Those who beat their guns into plows will plow for those who don't.

Frank

 

[DRNewcomb]

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“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth”.
George Washington – First US President

If you can provide a source for this purported quote it would be very helpful. I've seen it many times but no one seems to be able to cite a source, leading me to believe that it's bogus.

Here's my quote: "The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honour in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give." Ida B Wells

 

[hogpatrol]

It's ALIVE! The thread, I mean.

 

[bugman]

A US Marine sniper, asked what he feels when he shoots an al-Qaeda member, replied " Recoil".

By the way, the person asking this question was none other than Katie Couric.