best quotations about
Arms & Weapons |
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Quotations
 | To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 45 likes |
 | Oligarchs and tyrants mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them! — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 7 likes |
 | Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 5 likes |
 | Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 5 likes |
 | Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 4 likes |
 | The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 4 likes |
 | No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 3 likes |
 | No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 3 likes |
 | A gun is not an argument. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
| As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 2 likes |
| The chief foundations of all states are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 2 likes |
 | The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion. |
 | We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. |
 | Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. |
 | Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. |
 | A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy. |
 | We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | One sword keeps another in the sheath. |
Latin Quotes
 | Rage supplies arms. Furor arma ministrat. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 29 likes |
 | Let arms yield to the toga. Cedant arma togae. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman (meaning: let military power give way to civil power) 8 likes |
| Arms and the man I sing Arma virumque cano. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 3 likes |
Quotes in Verse
| Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, And he shows them pearly white Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear And he keeps it out of sight. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 6 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? — Mae West, 1893-1980, American actress (said it in the film Sextette,1978, but already attributed to West since the 1930s) 7 likes |
 | The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Come and get them [the arms]. Μολών λαβέ. — Leonidas, King of Sparta (at Thermopylae, 480 BC) 16 likes |
Proverbs
 | God grant me a good sword and no use for it. 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | My, my, my! Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. — from the film The Big Sleep (1946) 8 likes |
 | Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. — from the film The Godfather (1972) 5 likes |
 | You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. — from the film The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966) 4 likes |
