Armed Men

Famous quotes containing the words armed and/or men:

    Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.
    The Difference lies, as far as I can see,
    Not in the thing it self, but the degree;
    John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)