Home Defense Quotes

#1. I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

Ronald Reagan

#2. Wal-mart started selling "Vampire Home Defense Kits", including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of holy water being sold at wal-mart.

Molly Harper

#3. To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.

Smedley D. Butler

#4. We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!

Carl T. Rowan

#5. I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

John Landgraf

#6. The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

Wendell Willkie

#7. Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.

Mark Lawrence

#8. The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

Laurence Tribe

#9. Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. You could have a season where you hit .330 and did all these great things, but nothing ever materialized from it and you went home October One. Or you could hit .260 and have key hits and key plays on defense that help your team get to the playoffs and win the World Series.

Andre Ethier

#11. Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ...

Evelyn Underhill

#12. Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

Dean Koontz

#13. God has designed us to depend on His Word to lead his people in ways that are utterly disproportionate to who we are.

David Platt

#14. The balls definitely carry a lot more. There should be some more home runs this year. Some of the guys on the team will have more home runs. On defense we'll have to cover some more ground.

Andrew Stevenson

#15. The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

Dick Gregory

#16. Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home

J.M. Barrie

#17. I don't know any other way. Anastasia. This is who I am.

E.L. James

#18. As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. Gossip, as it existed at that time, is a lost art. News carried home from a gossip fest could literally change lives. There was no defense against rumors

Linda Swain Bethea

#20. To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

Bell Hooks

#21. (Mike) Schmitty provided what the relief pitchers need most, home runs and great defense. He's the best third baseman that I ever played with, and maybe of all-time. Obvious Hall of Famer, even then. He retired while on top of his game. I thought for sure he was going to hit 600 home runs.

Steve Carlton

#22. The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

James Madison

#23. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Smedley Butler

#24. For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

James Brady

#25. Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.

Amy Jarecki

#26. It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

Horace Bushnell

#27. One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

Alana Stewart

#28. school before me, and we'd see her

Carolyn Brown

#29. I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.

Torii Hunter

#30. I would have jumped out and run after you.'
Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration? Henry Tilney at least was not. With a yet sweeter smile, he said every thing that need be said ...

Jane Austen

#31. No technology will win. Technology itself will win.

David Agus

#32. Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife's cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#33. The Iranian people, with regards to the policies of various American administrations in the past 30 years, are very worried. They don't trust them.

Hassan Rouhani

#34. Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#35. The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home

James Madison