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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Niccolò Machiavelli
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
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
Moshe Dayan
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles Baudelaire
What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.
Salvador Dalí
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
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Emil Cioran
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
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
Russians can give you arms, but only the United States can give you a solution.
Anwar Sadat
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
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
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without becoming soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.
Edward Gibbon
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Mae West
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