Cannon Quotes

107 quotes by 98 authors

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel,… — 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 an early age is because… — 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 laid down his arms. — Thomas Hood
I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I… — James McKeen Cattell
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 shell and shrapnel into peach… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face… — Kathe Kollwitz
There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the… — Friedrich Engels
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished… — Victor Hugo
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.… — Mark Twain
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity… — Charles Baudelaire
You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. — Jane Fonda
Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries. — Ambrose Bierce
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. — George S. Patton
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from… — Fritz Kreisler
Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is. — Brian Regan

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