William Powell Quotes

Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.

Where I stand at is on the Second Amendment where the right to bear arms is not just for hunting and fishing and things like that. But it's the right of the American people to have a means of defense against a tyrannical government. So, sometimes you got to have that back-up plan.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

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.

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

The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles—that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere. But I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family - whether it's from an intruder or whether it's from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.

Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

In the Second Amendment, it's not about hunting, it's not about target shooting, it's about protecting your home and your family and your life.

I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family -- whether it's from an intruder, or whether it's from a government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.

The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

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.

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.