Guns Quotes

The page has a mixed set of names: Krist Novoselic, Thomas Jefferson, 50 Cent, Ida B. Wells and the legal scholar Adam Winkler. The sourced lines include Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times (1892), on the freedman’s need for more than freedom, and Emerson’s 1847 poem about naming all the birds without a gun.

Three popular lines carry flags. The statement about not allowing subject races to possess arms, credited to Hitler, is disputed. The Massachusetts amendment credited to Samuel Adams is disputed, and the notes show it differs from what is documented in the state convention of 6 February 1788. A passage on arms discouraging and keeping the peace, credited to Thomas Paine, is marked misattributed.

Random quote on Guns

Most quoted on guns:

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

Rod Serling Speech at Binghamton Community High School (1968)

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun;
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems (1847)

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Hilaire Belloc The Modern Traveller (1898)

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people — because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it — I don't care how good you are.

Bruce Lee Bruce Lee interview on the Pierre Berton Show (1971)

Armed men don’t sit down and talk.

Ursula K. Le Guin The Eye of the Heron (1978)