Quotes on Weapons

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am optimistic enough to believe that the next scourge to disappear will be large-scale warfare-killed by the existence and nonuse of nuclear weapons.

The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.