Top 1200 Guns In America Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

I found myself defending America a lot in England. They were always asking me racial questions. I'd say, 'You've got prejudice here, too. At least in America we're trying to deal with it.'

We've had enough with loopholes in our gun laws that allow dangerous people to get their hands on guns.

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.

Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it.... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

I would like to live long enough to see the day when people talk about which guns are the safest.

Gastronomy has done more to bring together people of the world than any guns ever could.

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.

I never had even been on a horse and I thought guns were for the police until 'Bonanza' came along.

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

Just like President Obama, Hillary Clinton does in fact want to take away your guns.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.

We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

Why should guns be treated different than toasters? If your defective product injures somebody, you're responsible for it.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering a land already populated by indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to come to America. Their talent and hard work and love of freedom have helped make America the leader of the world. And our generation will ensure that America remains a beacon of liberty and the most hope fill society this world has ever known.

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

I'm prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.

When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the thread throughout my life.

Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.

One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people - if a gun is not present, it's generally more difficult to do irreparable harm.

Bonanza' was never a violent show, yet it is set in an era when men wore guns and violence was a fact of life.

Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House.

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn our guns against the Republicans.