Gun Laws

Leave the gun, take the cannoli. - The Godfather

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

The good lawyer is the great salesman. - Janet Reno

A gun gives you the body, not the bird. - Henry David Thoreau

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. - Charles Lamb

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. - G. Gordon Liddy

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. - Earl Warren

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. - Jeremy Bentham

I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer. - Unknown

A Canadian is sort of like an American, but without the gun. - Unknown

There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity. - Douglas MacAurthur

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? - Mae West

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless it is paid for. - Unknown

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. - Freda Adler

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. - John Steinbeck

Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. - Thomas Jefferson

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. - Norman Cousins

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it. - Alan Dershowitz

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. - Sheldon B. Kopp

A lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. - Patrick Murray

Outside of the killings, D.C. has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. - Marion Barry

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness

It's a proven fact that capital punishment is a well-known detergent to crime. - Archie Bunker

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan

When I take a gun in hand, the safest place for a pheasant is just opposite the muzzle. - Sydney Smith

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. - Imre Lakatos

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. - Jack Nicholson

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. - Will Rogers

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire one to tell me how to do what I want to do. - J P Morgan

Women are like the police. They could have all the evidence in the world, but they still want the confession. - Chris Rock

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. - Arthur Schopenhauer

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. - James F. Bymes

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single. - Tiny Tim