Quotes on Guns

It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.

What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns.

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead to violence anywhere else but America.

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.