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 confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “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)