favorite quotes from our founding fathers regarding 2A.

Please list your favorite 2nd Amendment, or gun control related quotes from our founding fathers.

Also, if you have a citation for your quote from online, please share the link.

PLEASE, ALL I'M ASKING FOR IS QUOTES.

Liberals; don't share your opinions on why you think guns are bad. this isn't the time or place. all I've asked for is quotes. there should be no flaming in this thread.

fellow right-wingers; don't bash the libs.

 

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.. (where) ..the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

Our 4th Father,

JAMES MADISON​

and this is another fav.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

BEN FRANKLIN​

 

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants, it is it's natural manure. ~Jefferson

 

(can't believe I'm about too, but....)


BUMP!

 

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb dicussing what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lambed contesting the vote"
(this quote has been wrongly attributed to Ben Franklin but no one seems to know who said it first)

 

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" Thomas Jefferson

 

fuck you, I have more guns

Its one I just made up..seems like someone would say it?

 

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.-Thomas Jefferson

I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.-Thomas Jefferson

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist in 1764. That was 230 years ago. -Thomas Jefferson

this is where i found them.. http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/thomas_jefferson.htm

 

Not sure if it's my favorite but it's a good one.

No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
---Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776.