Armed Men

Famous quotes containing the words armed and/or men:

    For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon’s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)