Ted Cruz Quotes

Gun ownership. The Bill of Rights should be written according to what's appropriate now, not two centuries ago.

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

The Second Amendment is not just words on parchment. It's not some frivolous suggestion from our Founding Fathers to be interpreted by whim. It lies at the heart of what this country was founded upon.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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

Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

In the same way we all have a right to bear arms, we all have a right to live.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police.

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

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

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

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

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

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.

I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

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

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.

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

I don’t think there is a Constitutional right for individuals to bear arms. But I’m against gun control. So there!

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.