Armed Quotes
612 quotes by 481 authors
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It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed…
— George Friedman
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All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many.…
— Robert Grudin
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They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
— Peter Mandelson
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I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or…
— Harry S. Truman
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We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
— Peter Pace
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The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in…
— Anne Rice
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
— Aristotle
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.
— Joe Conason
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At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our…
— Nelson Mandela
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The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the…
— Karl Marx
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Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.
— Rod Paige
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Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and…
— Antonya Nelson
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Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel,…
— Cherie Priest
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My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't…
— John Scarne
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed
— James Madison
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Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.
— Alexander Hamilton
Who Wrote These Armed Quotes
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