Mel Martinez Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Obama and his me-too Senate majority led by Nevada's Harry Reid and New York's Chuck Schumer - given the chance - would indeed wipe out our tradition of the right to keep and bear arms, and with it our right to self-protection in a dangerous world.

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.

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

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

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

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

The Union agrees with the Supreme Court's long standing interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that the individual's right to keep and bear arms applies only to the preservation or efficiency of a "well-regulated militia." Except for lawful police and military purposes, the possession of weapons by individuals is not constitutionally protected.

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

Registering a gun is like registering to exercise the right of free speech.

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.

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

No clause in the constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give congress a power to disarm the people.

…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..

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.

As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.

Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.

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.