Quotes on Founding Fathers Gun

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

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

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 balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.

When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.