Famous quotes containing the word arms:
“So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pridethe temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
One cordial in this melancholy vale,
T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
In others arms breathe out the tender tale,”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each others arms & separates them leagues, continents, asunder.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)