Everyone Is Armed/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."

—Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

—Robert Heinlein, Sci fi author

"The Greek manner of fighting must be explained as an evolving idea, a perception in the minds of small farmers that their lands should remain at all costs inviolate-aporthetos-not to be trodden over by any other then themselves, land whose integrity all citizens of the polis were willing to fight over on a momments notice..."

—The Western Way of War, by Victor Davis Hanson, historian, columnist, and raisin farmer

Gruff Farmer: You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Alien: Your proposal is acceptable.

—Men in Black