Arms Quote by Sylvia Plath

I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time…

— Robert Anderson

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but…

— Livy

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The most devious and sinister acts of historical violence are always committed by tyrants with armies—not citizens with arms.”

— Seth Daniel Parker

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“into battle. Arms are as capricious as the desert, and, if they are not used, the next time they might not function. If at…

— Paulo Coelho

Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

— Karl Marx

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

— Karl Marx

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if…

— Alexander Hamilton

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to…

— Joseph Story