Quotes on Second Amendment

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

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

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.

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

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.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.