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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
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
I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman (1960)
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
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.
United States CongressThe Bill of Rights (Proposed 1789, ratified 1791), Amendment IIIn context
- Liberty
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