Arms Quotes

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

Shall, Debarred, Freeman

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi

History, Whole, Nation

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine

Keep, Order, Discourage

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson

Hope, Though, Loves

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali

Life, Car, Hurt

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill

Race, Nuclear, Bounce

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
Thomas Jefferson

Violence, Shall, Took

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

Cannot, Last, Defense

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

Mother, Sleep, Children

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle

Both, Mistrust, Tyrant

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Trust, Afraid, Advantage

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams

United, Shall, Keeping

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush

Family, Around, Means

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Che Guevara

Death, Battle, May

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, Yourself, Find

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

Life, Death, Around

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Mae West

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Mitt Romney

Love, Family, God

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
Jerry Lewis

Woman, Dream, Able

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Ron Paul

Good, Through, Far

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken

Love, Women, Men

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Trust, Afraid, Nation

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
James Madison

Best, Country, Free

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent

War, Evil, America

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
Barack Obama

Pain, Lost, Battle

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley

Faith, Morning, Doubt

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
Steven Wright

Museum, Museums, Statues

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Good, Cannot, State

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

Hope, War, Except

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