Arms Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...

— Simone Weil

...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

After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can't respect one of them and violate the…

— Maria Julia Hernandez

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

— John F. Kennedy

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

— Woodrow Wilson

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle.…

— Jefferson Davis

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

— Saint Augustine

...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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

— Woodrow Wilson