Threatened

Famous quotes containing the word threatened:

    When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
    Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866)

    This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
    —H.G. (Herbert George)

    What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)