Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme – When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time? It is not learning, grace nor gear, Nor easy meat and drink, But bitter […]
Armed Quotes
Did I realize the difference that organized science must mean? Two hundred years ago determined citizens with muskets were almost as good as the King’s armies. Now the apparatus is so much more complex. A central government which can rely on its armed forces is able to stay in power for ever… I thought he […]
Love and Death once ceased their strife At the Tavern of Man’s Life. Called for wine, and threw-alas!- Each his quiver on the grass. When the bout was o’er they found Mingled arrows strewed the ground. Hastily they gathered then Each the lives and loves of men. Ah, the fateful dawn deceived! Mingled arrows each […]
These people may say they think arms are for hugging, but the inescapable logic of their position is that thugs are for arming.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Armaments were not created chiefly for the protection of the nations but for their enslavement
Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
. . .for if a society cannot protect its very structure from armed internal attack, it must follow that no subordinate value can be protected.
There is no nation on earth so dangerous as a nation fully armed, and bankrupt at home.
America, today, spends more on armaments and military than all the other nations of the world, combined.
