Threatened

Famous quotes containing the word threatened:

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

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

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