Arms

Famous quotes containing the word arms:

    “A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Happy for us, that when we find our constitutions defective and insufficient to secure the happiness of our people, we can assemble with all the coolness of philosophers and set it to rights, while every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to restore their constitutions.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “Mother’s arms are made of tenderness,
    And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)