Armed Quotes
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There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. (Quote by - Gouverneur Morris)
I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country. (Quote by - Robert A. Brady)
I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. (Quote by - Hans Blix)
Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers. (Quote by - Joe Conason)
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. (Quote by - Amiri Baraka)
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty. (Quote by - Peter Pace)
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict. (Quote by - Anthony Eden)
I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest. (Quote by - Ron Paul)
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world. (Quote by - Dorothy Day)
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. (Quote by - Martha Gellhorn)
Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire? (Quote by - Mark Thomas)
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the malign-ers of his honor. (Quote by - Charles J. Ingersoll)
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. (Quote by - Stephen J. Field)
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. (Quote by - Plato)
I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country. (Quote by - Lindsey Graham)
You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. (Quote by - David Lloyd)
I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here. (Quote by - Mangosuthu Buthelezi)
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. (Quote by - Jean Paul)
An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent. (Quote by - Adnan Pachachi)
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. (Quote by - James Madison)
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed. (Quote by - Buffalo Bill)
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces. (Quote by - Charlie Dent)
I don't want to go in armed with a bunch of tunes -- I want to go in barefoot and unprepared. It's an ongoing relationship. We like the way he works, and he likes the way we work together, so I don't think it's even a question. (Quote by - Dave Matthews Band)
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy. (Quote by - Suzanne Fields)
If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong. (Quote by - Al Franken)
But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. (Quote by - King Albert II)
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. (Quote by - Jay Leno)
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass (Quote by - Horace)
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice. (Quote by - Timothy Pawlenty)
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust (Quote by - Josh Billings)
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed. (Quote by - Nursultan Nazarbayev)
In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today. (Quote by - Herman Kahn)
I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism. (Quote by - John Doolittle)
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. (Quote by - Aeschines)
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel. (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country. (Quote by - Daniel Ortega)
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. (Quote by - Sarah Bernhardt)
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. (Quote by - Robert Mugabe)
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours. (Quote by - Veronica Franco)
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality. (Quote by - Mike Rogers)
If they had them, and they were armed to the teeth with them, why didn't they use them? ... If they didn't use them and hid them, that means they were deterred. And how do you hide all of these hundreds and hundreds of weapons with which they're armed? (Quote by - Zbigniew Brzezinski)
We are indebted to the men and women serving in our armed forces for their dedicated and unselfish service to our country. (Quote by - Carl Levin)
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. (Quote by - George Soros)
As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world. (Quote by - William Lyon Mackenzie King)
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan. (Quote by - John Thorn)
Before all else, be armed. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, who he assumes to have perfect vision. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom. (Quote by - Zack Wamp)
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be. (Quote by - Anne Roiphe)
We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case. (Quote by - Silvio Berlusconi)
But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League. (Quote by - Arthur Henderson)
One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time. (Quote by - Jeff Cooper)
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom. (Quote by - William Lyon Mackenzie King)
