"Pens carry further than rifled cannon." — Bayard Taylor

More Cannon Quotes

This quote is filed under Cannon Quotes, one of 107 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder… — Conrad Black
• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. — Lenny Bruce
• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such… — Madonna Ciccone
• For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon. — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
• Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he… — Thomas Hood
• I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which… — Unknown Author
• Nick Cannon or Will never did it this ill. — Drake
• Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism… — Kathe Kollwitz
• There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle,… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population… — Friedrich Engels

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