Patrick Henry Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

The 2nd Amendment was for protecting the people from the government.

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.

We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.

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

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

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

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.

The advantage of being armed ... the Americans possess over the people of all other nations.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several Kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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.

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.

Self defense—a reason which is not accepted in Great Britain as a reason for owning a gun.

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

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

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

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.

We are the millions and millions of Americans who take responsibility for our own safety and protection of our children as a God-given right. We are proud to exercise that right, are not ashamed of it and deserve nothing less than absolute respect and admiration as lawful gun owners.

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

I own guns, and no one's taking 'em away.