Armed Quotes
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
Aristotle -
Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.
Erich Maria Remarque
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A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
Martin Luther -
Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.
Osman Baydemir -
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
Stephen J. Field -
If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
Gerry Adams -
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
Alan Alda
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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.
Oscar Wilde -
There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed.
Rachel Caine -
Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Armed with these two formulas you can do any problem!
Arthur Mattuck -
An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I do not wish parties or tendencies, whatever the color, to penetrate into the ranks of the armed forces under any circumstances.
Abd al-Karim Qasim -
All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.
Walt Whitman -
All I'm armed with is research.
Mike Wallace
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The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Germany doesn't have a Bill of Rights, England doesn't have a Bill of Rights, nobody else has a Bill of Rights. You know, the United States is very unique, and that is in the Bill of Rights and the fact that one third of the population is armed... nobody's armed in Canada, nobody's armed in England, nobody's armed in Germany, it's amazing, the United States is a really stand alone class act.
Bernard von NotHaus -
I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
Mahatma Gandhi