Ted Cruz 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.

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

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

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

… full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty … including the constitutional right to bear arms.

In truth, we are the only developed country on earth with a constitution that recognizes the God-given right to keep and bear arms, and the human right of individual armed defense of self, family, home and country.

I'm for the constitutional right to bear arms. I'm a hunter, and so is my son.

I'm a lifelong strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and I've owned and used firearms since I was 10 years old.

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.

The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.

More than safeguarding someone's life, firearms safeguard the freedom of a people.

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.

We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.

In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany.

I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech.

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.

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

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

When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.

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.

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.

Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.