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Quotes About Arms

Tony nodded. "Yeah, like, 'Who could have committed such an egregious sin? Perhaps someone who feels cast out, who needs help and forgiveness.' " He waved his arms over his head as he imitated Jade.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
You mean, the people are armed?" Prince Bentrik was incredulous. "Great Satan, aren't yours?" Prince Trask was equally surprised. "Then your democracy's a farce, and the people are only free on sufferance. If their ballots aren't secured by arms, they're worthless.
~ H. Beam Piper
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
~ H. L. Mencken
The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he Holds you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
APRIL 16. Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone—come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth.
~ James Joyce
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
~ James Madison
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.
~ James Madison
The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
~ James Madison
He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet.You looove me, he crooned smugly holding his arms out wide, he added,You love me this much.
~ James Patterson
Think about it. When the end comes, will you be buried in the arms of the one you love? Of the one who knew you your whole life, who loved you your whole life? The only person who could really and truly love you like you needed to be loved? I hope so.
~ James Patterson
As Frederick the Great said, diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments. As the president found her seat in the
~ James Patterson
What's that old saying? A well-armed society is a polite society.
~ James Patterson
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
~ Omar Bongo
When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
~ Valerie Plame
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
~ Samuel Adams
In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.
~ Bob Ney
Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.
~ Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
~ George Savile
We went armed, your uncle and myself, although it was against the Protestant laws for Papists to bear arms. But the roads were dangerous in those days, footpads and highwaymen and rapparees.
~ Thomas Flanagan
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
~ Thomas Paine
Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in a world of angels...I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the world to lay aside the use of arms, and settle matters by negotiation: but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank Heaven He has put it in my power.
~ Thomas Paine
Let therefore every man, that, appealing to his own heart, feels the least spark of virtue or freedom there, think that it is an honor which he owes himself, and a duty which he owes his country, to bear arms.
~ Thomas Pownhall
Division turned out to be humanity's strength, togetherness its arms.
~ Thorsten J. Pattberg