Quotes About Arms

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

The military is a close-knit community and the loss of a brother in arms cuts deep, both to those of us in uniform and the extended families.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

No sé si alguna vez les ha pasado a ustedes pero el Jardín Botánico siempre ha tenido una agradable propensión a los sueños a que los insectos suban por las piernas y la melancolía baje por los brazos hasta que uno cierra los puños y la atrapa.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation; the nation that had taken to the Book was rescued not by the Book but by the force of arms.

The eighty-year-old scholar had openly criticised Bhindranwale for storing arms and ammunition in the Akal Takht, and had said that Bhindranwale's presence in the shrine was sacrilege. The hukmnama against Bhindranwale was never issued.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

The moon, precious sister, thinks you are the mad one. A sky with open arms yet you will not fly. A river, her legs spread open, yet you will not dive.

Note savages, eh? They live in mountain caves and dress like wild men. They walk about in woolen petticoats, which they are not in the least modest about casting aside when they need their sword arms free. Dash me, can you even begin to imagine the sight of a horde of naked, hairy-legged creatures charging at you across a battlefield like bloody fiends out of hell—screaming and flailing those great bloody swords and axes of theirs like scythes? Not savages?

I mean, my arms are detachable so theoretically I could leave them behind if I had a little help but as a longterm solution it was really inconvenient.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

But as Kennedy told the nation, a limited test ban was "safer by far for the United States than an unlimited nuclear arms race.

I'll take a breath, take you by my side Under the sunlight, Welcome to this place I'll show you love; I'll show you everything With arms wide open.

Between 1870 and 1880 all Sioux were driven into reservations, fenced in and forced to give up everything that had given meaning to their life—their horses, their hunting, their arms, everything.

Love," he said, "has the longest arms.

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

The reality was that while they might have eternity, there was violence on the horizon. And in the present. She wasn't intending on ignoring it. She couldn't. But she wasn't going to ignore them either. Just kiss me, ---." A look of hesitation crossed his face, but he didn't push her away. He swept her legs from under her and lifted her into his arms. " -Darkest Mercy (p 28)

and hearing only silence, the heart must erupt in agony: "Where is God? Where is God?" And as the years of silence spread, while the ravager despoils at will, would you or I see the corruption of a child and not take arms? Or watch our lifetime's work erupt in flame at the whims of blind men, and not be tempted to reach for a sword?

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

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

If God wanted us to play soccer, he would've given only 1 in 11 people arms.

There was something plush and sensual about his thickly rounded arms and swollen belly; it might have been the smoothness of his clear, tawny skin, or the way he fit into a well-made suit, resembling a self-satisfied seal gliding across a city street. He was a good talker—the sort of man who could sell lumber to a woodcutter.