Top 120 Ted Nugent Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.”

— Ted Nugent

2. “Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.”

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3. “To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want ’em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot ’em.”

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4. “May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy.”

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5. “Music is the great connector.”

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6. “If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.”

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7. “Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.”

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8. “I didn’t invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.”

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9. “When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.”

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10. “I’m not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.”

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11. “Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.”

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12. “Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.”

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13. “I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.”

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14. “Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.”

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15. “If you’re not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot.”

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16. “If it was up to me, if you uttered the word ‘gun control,’ we’d put you in jail.”

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17. “Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians – except for the occasional mountain lion steak.”

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18. “Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.”

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19. “We hunt and fish or we’ll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.”

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20. “I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don’t expect you to swallow.”

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21. “The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he’s still alive.”

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22. “The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.”

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23. “My love is like a tire iron.”

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24. “I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.”

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25. “If you don’t have a sense of humor, you’ll hurt yourself arguing with me.”

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26. “Apartheid isn’t that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.”

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27. “Name me a society that doesn’t love barbeque. It doesn’t exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.”

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28. “Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food.”

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29. “Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores.”

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30. “God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters.”

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31. “I’m Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.”

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32. “I’m the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.”

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33. “I don’t pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.”

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34. “When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It’s not about being good for me, it’s about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.”

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35. “I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.”

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36. “The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.”

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37. “Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.”

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38. “If there is one thing I am, it’s always right.”

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39. “I don’t objectify women. I’d like to think that I’m optimizing their hardware.”

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40. “I can hear her thunder, she’s coming after me, thunder thighs.”

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41. “I’m healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.”

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42. “Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.”

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43. “What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.”

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44. “Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.”

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45. “Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?”

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46. “Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.”

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47. “I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn’t allow us to waste anything.”

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48. “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

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49. “There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.”

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50. “As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place.”

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