If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think criti…

- Charlton Heston

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

- Charlton Heston

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

- Charlton Heston

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

- Charlton Heston

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

- Charlton Heston

You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we…

- Charlton Heston

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hand…

- Charlton Heston

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

- Charlton Heston

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

- Charlton Heston