Armed Quotes

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army.

To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us.

They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

A strong defense is the surest way to peace.

Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generationmy generationknows from four very bitter experiences. Just as Americas will for peace is second to none, so will Americas strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sakebut for the nations sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparednessfor armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economyfor we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of governmentfor freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.

It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

As armed conflict is highly gendered and women

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing;

stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women.

Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter.

We've gotten a long way on missile defense.

We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

All I'm armed with is research.

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.

I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.