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Quotes About Weapons

We had patience in our fighting with the Soviet Union with simple weapons for 10 years. We exhausted their economy, so they disappeared. We will not abandon our fight until the weapons run out.
~ Osama bin Laden
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
~ Oswald Chambers
We agreed that many a human life is sacrificed in sudden anger, because one or both the parties carry deadly weapons.
~ Unknown
The other argument [about the Iraq War] was about argument itself. It characterized any argument about policy (whether, in fact, Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction and whether regime change could be effected through an invasion) as unnecessary, dithering, disloyal, and possibly even deliberately evil, since the correct course of action was so obvious. Major media outlets demonized dissent. In a democracy.
~ Unknown
The two of you are trespassing on private property. Get out before I call the cops," said Gary. "Yeah, right, because concerned citizens always open fire with automatic weapons first, then call the police.
~ Unknown
Moriarty will have no option now but to move forward, because he knows what we have done, what we are capable of with those weapons – and he knows we are right on his heels. He will have no choice but to come out of hiding... To finally face Holmes once more!
~ Paul Kane
I have a Florida concealed firearms permit. But then, who doesn't? We have about nine hundred thousand residents licensed to carry concealed weapons, tops in the nation. Take that, Texas!
~ Paul Levine
That conclusion can be substantiated by their actions in office; the abrogation of the anti-ballistic missile treaty, the vast buildup in military expenditures at the expense of other priorities that the majority might consider more important; the installation of a world-wide system of regional defense commands, and the insistence on developing weapons of incredible destruction for use in space.
~ Unknown
weapons science was always kept very close to the government's chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
The outcome of Twenty-Eight was that any upright citizen could buy and use weapons-grade material as long as they did not utilize said material to fabricate a weapon.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
All because I was too stupid to learn from past mistakes. Just like all the other dreaming fools throughout history, wrapped up with seductive, clean equations, their simplistic, isolated elegance, giving no thought to the messy, bloody, physical application that was their ultimate reality. As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch. And for what?
~ Peter F. Hamilton
there could well be two alien species out there, both with weapons and technology so far ahead of ours it might as well be magic." "Thank you, Sir Arthur," Ozzie muttered. Nigel grinned at his old friend; he doubted anyone else in the room got the reference.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.
~ Genesis 27:3
And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
~ 1 Samuel 13:19
So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.
~ 1 Samuel 13:22
David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliathís weapons in his own tent.
~ 1 Samuel 17:54
Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the kingís business was urgent.”
~ 1 Samuel 21:8
And the guards stood with weapons in hand surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
~ 2 Kings 11:11
He also killed an Egyptian, a huge man five cubits tall. Although the Egyptian had a spear like a weaverís beam in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club, snatched the spear from his hand, and killed the Egyptian with his own spear.
~ 1 Chronicles 11:23
The Levites must surround the king with weapons in hand, and anyone who enters the temple must be put to death. You must stay close to the king wherever he goes.”
~ 2 Chronicles 23:7
He stationed all the troops, with their weapons in hand, surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
~ 2 Chronicles 23:10
Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
~ 2 Chronicles 26:14
A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance.
~ Job 39:23