Sword Quotes

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. (Alexander Hamilton)
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. View quote
Earl Warren
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss. View quote
Andrei Gromyko
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise King born of all England. (Thomas Malory)
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
One sword keeps another in the sheath. View quote
George Herbert
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head. View quote
Stephen R. Donaldson
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. View quote
Confucius
The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest. View quote
Lord Byron
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. View quote
Homer
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. View quote
Walter Scott
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain. View quote
Anthony the Great
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon. View quote
Dustin Diamond
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law. View quote
Thomas Jefferson