Highwaymen Quotes

14 quotes by 12 authors

• It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. — Nicolas Cage
• A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is… — Benjamin Franklin
• The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything… — Mark Twain
• The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
• Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's… — William Shenstone
• They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the… — Jonathan Mayhew
• Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work… — Alexander Berkman
• The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are… — Lysander Spooner
• When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you… — Alexander Berkman
• We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then… — William Makepeace Thackeray
• The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without… — Diana Gabaldon
• The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a… — Alfred Noyes
• I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music… — Christian Kane
• Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives. — John Gay

Who Wrote These Highwaymen Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 14 Highwaymen Quotes as follows:

• 2 Highwaymen Quotes by Lysander Spooner
• 2 Highwaymen Quotes by Alexander Berkman
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by Nicolas Cage
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by Jonathan Mayhew
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by Diana Gabaldon
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by Christian Kane
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by John Gay
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by Benjamin Franklin
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by William Shenstone
• 1 Highwaymen Quote by Alfred Noyes