Home Defense Quotes

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.

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.

A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.

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.

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

National patriotism, in other words, inevitably springs from the instinct to defend and preserve our own homes.

Every citizen a Sentinel: every home a sentry box

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.

If you are foolish enough to defend your own home against burglary, expect to be arrested, fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed, and probably charged.

Every honest citizen, man or woman, if they want to have a weapon in their homes - depending on certain criteria - should be able to have one.

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.

Free men and women have the right to own a gun to protect their home.

Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

Your home is your castle—protect it.

Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.

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!

SELF-PROTECTORS TO TRAVELLERS AND PLANTERS: For travellers, housekeepers, captaias, planters, and others, they are an indispensable article, as persons, both male and female, can with this pistol protect their lives or property if attacked by many persons.