Arms

Famous quotes containing the word arms:

“A tree the span of two arms starts from a tiny seedling.”
—Chinese proverb.

Lao-tzu.

“... last night, to let you toss alone,
When from your arms I kept my cold desire.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms ... you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)