Sharron Angle Quotes

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.

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

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.

In an age where the government has tanks, rockets and missiles, it seems ludicrous to believe that citizen's having handguns are a protection against government power.

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.

The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia's role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government.

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

The great object is that every man be armed.

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

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

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

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This is not for someone who's in the military. This not for law enforcement. This is for us. And in fact when you read that Constitution and the founding fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny. This [gun control] is for us when our government becomes tyrannical...

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

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

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

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.

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

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.

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

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

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

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