#gun

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#begun #believe #big #big government #deal

I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention. ↗

— Luke Perry

#detention #fake #friends #get #gun

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some. ↗

— Emo Philips

#gave #guns #our #school #searched

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#done #gunpowder #mind #press #printing

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#conscientious #difficult #felt #guns #had

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#better #completely #country #dna #feel

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#ancestors #been #both #business #come

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#continue #end #friendship #which #will

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun. ↗

— Sarah Vaughan

#competition #gun #i #i remember #out

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#guns #his #hundred #lawyer #men