Able Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

— Patrick Henry

...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

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

— Bashar al-Assad

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue…

— Thomas Paine

Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for…

— Ronald Reagan

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad…

— Vladimir Putin

Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind by internal…

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here…

— Timothy Dwight V

“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

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

— Bell Hooks