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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)
- War & Peace
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
- Freedom
- War & Peace
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong1893–1976“Problems of War and Strategy”, 1938.
- War & Peace
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959
- Writing
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
?UnattributedOften credited to Joseph Stalin
- Ideas
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone1899–1947
America…just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005“September,”, p. 413
- America
It’s going to be the ballot or the bullet.
Malcolm X1925–1965“The Ballot or the Bullet” speech (1964)
- Voting
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong1893–1976Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 5, originally published in Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
- Politics
- Power
When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, “I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.”
Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #926, A General Digging Out Of Old War Contracts (15 July 1929)
- War & Peace
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Göring1893–1946Radio broadcast (1936), as quoted in The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage (1968) by William L. Safire, p. 178
- War & Peace
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Draft Constitution for Virginia (June 1776)
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to George Washington (1796); published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., (1903-04), 9:341
They will never shoulder a musket again in anger, and if Grant is wise, he will leave them their guns to shoot crows with and their horses to plow with. It would do no harm.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Regarding the treatment of former Confederate soldiers. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 312
- War & Peace