Possess Nuclear Weapons

Famous quotes containing the words nuclear weapons, possess, nuclear and/or weapons:

    “You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
    —Frank Zappa (1940–1993)

    “The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–91)