Some interesting firearm quotes

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.-Americas Original Homeland Security

A government that does not trust its law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is
itself unworthy of trust.- James Madison

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety
deserve neither.-Benjamin Franklin

Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the peoples liberty
teeth.-George Washington

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

A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined but should have sufficient arms
and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them,
Which also includes their own government. George Washington

This Country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they
shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of
amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.-Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.-Benjamin Franklin

When firearms go, all goes. We need them every hour.-George Washington

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other
countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.-James Madison

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands.-Charlton Heston

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.-John F. Kennedy

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788

No slave shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another. Arms in possession of a slave contrary to this prohibition shall be forfeited to him who will seize them.
— A Bill Concerning Slaves, Virginia Assembly, 1779