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"The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way." »Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906
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"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion." »James Burgh
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"A gentleman is not for his gender, A gentleman known by his good jester" »The Omani Shed
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"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands" »Patrick Henry
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"The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment." »Confucius, nalects, IV.11
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"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." »Adolf Hitler
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"The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'" »Ken Konecki
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"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." »Hubert Humphrey
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"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me." »Frederick Douglas
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"This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." »William Lyon Phelps
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"This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one." »George Sanders
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"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't." »Unknown
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"I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor." »George Bernard Shaw
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"A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman." »American Proverb
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"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him." »Thomas Fuller
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"I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together." »Charles Dickens
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"Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full." »Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
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"Let us not overstrain our abilities, or we shall do nothing with grace. A clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman." »La Fontaine
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"A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman." »Herbert Spencer
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"Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman." »George Bernard Shaw
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"An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be." »Baroness Orczy
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." »Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure." »Thorstein Veblen
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"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." »Oscar Wilde
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"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." »Oscar Wilde
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"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady." »Thomas Huxley
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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss." »Winston Churchill
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"I have 20" arms and a 30" waist" »John Quinlan (wrestler)
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"By force of arms." »Cicero
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