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Famous Quotes
Liberty,
Gun / Firearm Quotes
 "Democracy
is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is
a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin
"Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther
King Jr
"When
injustice becomes law, resistance becomes a duty."
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Q:
What does Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler and Amnesty International
have in common?
A:
Gun control!
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"If
ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better
than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We
ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands
which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen." Samual Adams, Father
of the American Revolution
"The
Citizen is obliged in conscience not to follow the directives of Civil
Authorities, when they are contrary to the demands of the moral order,
to the fundamental rights of persons, or the teachings of the Gospel.
Refusing obedience to civil authorities when their demands are contrary
to those of an upright conscience, finds its justification in the
distinction between serving God and serving the political community…"
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2242
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized
nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police
more effective, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
Adolph Hitler 1935
"There will never be uniform gun laws in Australia until we see
a massacre in Tasmania." New
South Wales Premier Barry Unsworth, after a specially called Premier's
meeting in Hobart, December 1987. Reported by the Sun Herald edition
of 5 May 1996
“In reaching a historic agreement on
prohibition of weapons, we made a mighty contribution to delivering
a safer and more secure Australian society.” John
Howard, 1996-97, Australian Prime Minister
"Under
the new laws, personal protection is not a reason for being licensed
to own a firearm, nor was it under the old law." Queensland
Gun Laws - Quick Guide, January 15, 1997
"If ever time should come, when vain
and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our
country will stand in need of its experienced Patriots to prevent
its ruin." Samuel
Adams
"To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to
enslave them." George
Mason, U.S. Second Amendment Primer
"An
armed society is a polite society." Robert
Heinlein
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration
is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
Janet
Reno
"Definition of GUN CONTROL: The belief that government
with its great wisdom and moral superiority can be trusted with a monopoly
of deadly force."
"Our task of creating a socialist America
can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
Sara
Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control International
"A
strong body makes a strong mind. As to the species of exercises, I advise
the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness,
enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball
and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no
character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion
of your walks." Thomas
Jefferson
"We can't be so fixated
on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."
Bill
Clinton
"God grants liberty only to those who
love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." Daniel
Webster
"He that suffers his life to be taken from
him by one that hath no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve
it by defence, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God hath enjoined
him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every
creature to defend itself."
Jeffrey R. Snyder, Attorney
“The
Bush Administration would like to make the U.N. a cornerstone of its
plans to construct a New World Order.” Time Magazine, September
17, 1990.
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"God,
Guns & Guts
Made
Australia Free
Let's Fight To Keep All 3"
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"Thus
the metric system did not really catch on in the United States, unless
you count the increasing popularity of the 9 millimetre bullet."
Dave
Barry
"Prohibition
doesn't work, it just makes life harder for people." NSW
Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon - 19/2/2002 Seven News website 605
Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a speech to NATO in Brussels
in an attempt to justify the pre-emptive strike against Iraq and to
explain why the United States could not wait until weapons of mass destruction
were found. Here is his exact statement, word for word, and this is
not a misprint! Rumsfeld said:
"The message is that there are no knowns. There
are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns, that
is to say there are things we now know we don’t know. But there
are also unknown unknowns – things we do not know we don’t
know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information
together, and we then say ‘well, that’s basically what we
see as the situation’, that is really only the known knowns and
the known unknowns. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown
unknowns.” Burlington Free Press, Dec. 3, 2003, by Sue
Leeman, AP, London, England, UK.
"Whatever
gun laws you have, you will still have people obtaining guns illegally."
- "That's the reality" Premier Steve Bracks - Victoria
- The Age - 14/5/01 page 6 813
"Countless people...will hate the New
World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to
bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents..."
H.G.
Wells, From his book, The New World Order
"Therefore,
if relative lethality is measured by the number of victims killed, a
firearm is not the most lethal instrument of homicide."
Jenny Mouzos - AIC Researcher - "Homicidal Encounters - A
Study of Homicide in Australia" Australian Institute of
Criminology. Page 90 17/7/2000
"It
may be politically expedient or socially palatable to ban [military-style
weapons], yet such measures are destined to have little effect when
reducing the incidence of firearm-related crime and injury."
Reece Waiters, from the Institute of Criminology, was commissioned to
do the study by the Review Of Firearms Control, chaired by Sir Thomas
Thorp in 1997, which recommended the ban on military-style weapons.
Evening Post -Wellington New Zealand 29/6/2000
"To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy
the British Empire." Karl
Marx (the 'Father' of Communism itself)
The
police commissioner said the new gun laws had worked in restricting
access to guns but would not eliminate gun violence. "Some
criminals will always get guns, there's no doubt about that," Commissioner
O'Sullivan said. Queensland Police Commissioner Jim O'Sullivan 2/5/2000
- The Australian Page 6
"The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a
new world order in which the superpower
adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest
of Kuwait..." George
Herbert Walker Bush, 1990
"The
environment is more violent and dangerous than it was some time ago."
Police Commissioner South Australia
Mal Hyde 23/12/99 - The Advertiser - Adelaide
“In reaching a historic agreement on prohibition
of weapons, we made a mighty contribution to delivering a safer and
more secure Australian society.” John
Howard, 1996-97, Australian Prime Minister
"Victoria
is facing one of its worst murder tolls for a decade - and its lowest
arrest rate ever. The growing number of planned, ambush murders this
year has put added pressure on the homicide squad."
Herald Sun - Melbourne - 12/11/99
"In
regard to allegations that 3,000 firearms are imported into Australia
annually, officers of the Attorney-General's Department have conducted
extensive research of United Nations (UN) databases, and have consulted
with UN officials, and it would appear that there is no evidence available
to support these claims. On the contrary, the information available
reflects a low level of illegal importation activity in Australia."
Andrew
Kirk - Office of the Minister for Justice and Customs. 1/11/99
"More
cases of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated burglary are being reported
in Victoria...overall crime rate rising by 3.7 per cent in 11 months.
Homicide - Source: Police data, Crime management Report, 1996-97 136,
1997-98 120, 1998-99 176 ( 11 months only)"
The Age - Melbourne 11/8/99
“In reaching a historic agreement on prohibition
of weapons, we made a mighty contribution to delivering a safer and
more secure Australian society.” John
Howard, 1996-97, Australian Prime Minister
"National gun laws and the destruction of 640,000 firearms under
the buyback scheme appear to have done little to reduce the national
murder rate, says a new study." Research paper issued by
the AIC on the affect of the new gun laws. The Age - 3/6/99
"If we can effectively kill the national
pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country.
Therefore, there must be continued propaganda abroad to undermine the
loyalty of citizens in general, and teenagers in particular. By making
drugs of various kinds readily available, by creating the necessary
attitude of chaos, idleness and worthlessness, and by preparing him
psychologically and politically, we can succeed." Vladimar
Lenin (Communist leader of the Russian Revolution)
"Fatal
shootings in Victoria have increased despite the introduction of tighter
gun laws in 1996, a (AIC) study has found."
State's gun deaths rise - Herald Sun - Victoria - 3/6/99
"If
the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased
down the streets and lynched." George
H W Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter
"The
Federal Government will crack down on the availability of illegal knives
after figures released yesterday showed they were the most common weapon
used in homicides." AIC
Report - Sydney Morning Herald - 12/3/99
"In
1996-97, $7.41b (equivalent to $402 per person) was spent by the Commonwealth
Government and the State, Territory and local governments on public
order and safety. Compared to 1995-96, this represents an increase of
10.6% in total outlays, or $34 more per person." Australian
Bureau of Statistics - "Australia Now - A Statistical Profile"
25/2/99
"Murders
by firearms have actually increased (in Victoria) since the buyback
scheme which removed 225,000 registered and un-registered firearms from
circulation. There were 18 shooting murders in 1996-97 after the buyback
scheme had been introduced compared with only six in 1995-96 before
the scheme started." - "Killing
rise in gun hunt" - Herald Sun - Melbourne 23/12/98
"Queensland
Police Commissioner Jim O'Sullivan yesterday expressed "grave concern"
as the number of armed robberies across the state took a big jump for
the second year running." Sunshine
Coast Daily - 13/11/98
“In reaching a historic agreement on prohibition
of weapons, we made a mighty contribution to delivering a safer and
more secure Australian society.” John
Howard, 1996-97, Australian Prime Minister
"Crime
involving guns is on the rise despite tougher laws. The number of robberies
with guns jumped 39% in 1997 while assaults involving guns rose 28%
and murders by 19%. (ABS figures)" - "Gun
crime soars.." - Sydney Morning Herald - 28/10/98
"Robbery
with a firearm increased nearly 60 per cent over the previous financial
year." South
Australian Police Annual Report - tabled in State Parliament 27/10/98
"Robbery
with a firearm increased more than 13% in NSW during the gun buyback."
NSW
Bureau of Crime Statistics - Sun Herald - 26/10/98
"Chance
of dying in a year at the population's average rate of exposure to the
risk. Owning firearms - 1 in 33,000. NSW Department of Planning - Paper
#4:" Risk criteria for Land use Safety Planning.
"Crime
involving guns has soared despite tougher laws imposed after the Port
Arthur massacre...the number of robberies involving guns leapt 39% (ABS
Report)...assaults involving guns jumped 28%." Armed
Crime on rise -The Sunday Mail - Brisbane 18/10/98
"The
present structure of the legislation, particularly s.10(6)(b) of the
Weapons Act 1990, is in my opinion unduly restrictive, and can produce
results which are unfair and unjust." McGill
DCJ Reasons for Judgement 20/5/98 regarding Domestic Violence and the
QLD Weapons Act.
"Our
sources don't know of any group of people trading in unlicensed firearms"
Supt Steve Robbins - WA Police
Firearms The West Australian - Perth - 4/7/98
"These gun laws are very much the creation of the Prime Minister."
Senator Amanda Vanstone, The West Australian - Perth - 23/6/98
"I
don't think Australia went over the top at all."
Prime Minister John Howard on the 1996 national agreement on gun laws
- The West Australian - Perth - 21/3/98
"According
to ABS figures, the number of people robbed at gunpoint in NSW rose
from 827 (827)
in
1996 to 1252 in 1997." Sunday
Telegraph - Sydney - 14/3/98
"We
have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all
the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any
way in a much shorter time frame." Bob
Carson - Qld Gun Laws Project - On 28 day waiting period The Courier
Mail - Brisbane - 4/3/98
"The
number of Victorians murdered with firearms has almost trebled since
the introduction of tighter gun laws. Geelong Advertiser."
Victoria 11/9/97
"Gun
deaths fell by 46 per cent during the last 15 years before tough new
firearm legislation introduced after last year's Port Arthur massacre,
according to figures released yesterday by the ABS. "The figures
clearly show that the absolute numbers of (gun) deaths, and the rates
of death, has been steadily declining before Port Arthur." David
Povah ABS - The Australian - 27/2/97
New
legislation banning semiautomatic weapons will do nothing to prevent
the vast majority of gun deaths, according to Australia's senior crime
researcher: "The
legislation won't do it, nor was it designed to do it." Dr
Adam Graycar AIC - The Australian - 9/12/96
"...a
complete cock-up!" Bob Perry
- South Australian Firearms owner - The Advertiser - 30/11/96
on being issued a firearm licence with another persons picture upon
it
"It
is a fact that the majority of gun owners in both urban and rural areas
support these reforms." Federal Attorney-General Daryl
Williams - AMA Seminar September 1996
"Its time to bite the bullet and take
a stand so Australia does not go down the path of the US with its gun
culture." Prime Minister John Howard - Sunday Telegraph
- NSW - 21/7/96
"When
the new gun booklet was recently mailed to all licensed shooters, 20%
were returned as 'not known at this address.'" Tony Lauer
- Commissioner of Police NSW - Submission on Gun Law Reform - September
1991
"Then
said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and
likewise his script: and he that hath no sword, let him sell
his garment, and buy one." Jesus Christ, Creator
of the Universe, and you and I [Luke 22:36]
"If
a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average
constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware
store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun,
anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't
your friend no matter what he tells you." L. Neil Smith
"Those
who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."
"Beware
the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry
into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.
It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the
drums of war reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and
the mind has 'closed', the leader will have no need in seizing the rights
of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded
by patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly
so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. AND I AM CAESAR."
Julius
Caesar
"Ideas are more powerful than guns.
We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have
ideas." Joseph Stalin
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me,
I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to
a quiet place and kill him." Mark Twain
“The
Bush Administration would like to make the U.N. a cornerstone of its
plans to construct a New World Order.” Time Magazine, September
17, 1990
“One's
god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application
and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian
systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny."
George Washington in his Farewell Address
“You
assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means
partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with
his or her whole soul." Mahatma
Gandi
“Governments
need armies to protect them from their enslaved and oppressed subjects."
Tolstoy
“The
course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
Thomas
Jefferson
“Government
big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything
you have." Thomas
Jefferson
“Government
is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master."
George
Washington
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