No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Andrew Jackson

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.
Charles D. Ellison

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
Andrea Dworkin

Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword.
David Carradine

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.
Thomas Bulfinch

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
Calista Flockhart

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Gordon W. Allport

So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
Vince McMahon

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
Takeshi Kitano

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
Earl Warren

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.
Thomas F. Meagher

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
Benjamin Whichcote

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
Ang Lee

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
Caleb Cushing

The oil can is mightier than the sword.
Everett Dirksen