Armed Quotes

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Times, Duty

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Good, Society

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway

Men, Care, Long

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

Best, Mean, Free

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Thomas Jefferson

Important, Keep, Nation

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
Robin Hayes

Life, Women, Great

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

Hit, Deadly, Violent

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Trust, Afraid, Advantage

Before all else, be armed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato

Faith, Fight, Twice

The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand

Men, Nothing, Down

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Trust, Afraid, Nation

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Destroyed, Victorious, Prophets

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

Freedom, Friend, Liberty

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
Ted Nugent

Control, America, Gun

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.
Ron Paul

Women, Men, Someone

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.
Hillary Clinton

Lives, Anyone, Beyond

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Tim Pawlenty

Women, Men, History

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
Sidney Sheldon

Place, Lives, Risk

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Horace

Education, Knowledge, Injustice

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Soul, Against

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
Charlie Dent

Freedom, May, Sacrifice

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Horace

Within, Innocent, Wall

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
Akhenaton

Art, Happy, Wise

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Love, Power, Goodness

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Men, Feeling, Two

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
Rick Perry

Congress, Crime, Greater

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Tired, Mean, Words

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
Jeff Cooper

Hurt, Long, Dead

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