National Rifle Association Quotes

You have a right to possess in your home and in your business a rifle, a pistol, and King George can't take it away from you, or Uncle Sam either.

Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.

This Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always posses arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

An armed person is a citizen. An unarmed person is a subject. Criminals love gun control – it makes their jobs safer. The American Revolution would never have happened with "gun control.

…while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible..

We wouldn't take a gun away from a law-abiding citizen. We wouldn't take a gun away from anyone.

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

The great object is that every man be armed.

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

If there is no absolute right to freedom of speech, why must there be an absolute right to the freedom to bear arms.

Free men and women have the right to own a gun to protect their home.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.

The people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State

Libertarians and most conservatives boldly and nobly take a stand for our right to keep and bear arms. Not so we can go duck hunting, but so we can defend ourselves and our families from invasion. And so we can, if necessary, defend our liberty from the possibility of a tyrannical state.

Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.

I view it as a threat to my and my family's well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty.

I think the Americans have it right. The idea of having guns is essentially to protect yourself from a totalitarian government.

I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something that I'll back up.

I own guns because it's my right, it's my Second Amendment right, and no one in Washington gave me that right; it's a natural right confirmed by the very people that founded this nation.