Armed Quote by Timothy Snyder

“One should bear in mind that there is nothing more difficult to execute, nor more dubious of success, nor more dangerous to administer, than…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“In the second stage, once those who oppose the status quo succeed in weakening the authority of the existing order, they are able to…

— Christopher L. Hayes

“Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.”

— Thomas C. Schelling

“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against…

— Abraham Lincoln

“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or…

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Seth Daniel Parker

“In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see how this…

— David Graeber

“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political,…

— Dwight David Eisenhower

“The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defence; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“An armed man is a little republic unto himself”

— Dan Baum

“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns…

— Leo Tolstoy

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth…

— Benazir Bhutto