Quotes about Arms
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
- James Madison
A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
- John Adams
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
- Anonymous
I have a present for you, but I need to borrow your arms for wrapping paper.
- Anonymous
Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou wak'd'st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it. Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice To make dreams truths, and fables histories; Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best, Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.
- John Donne
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
- James Madison
It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland.
- Edmund Burke
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
- Woodrow Wilson
We are encompassed on all sides by the Almighty. "His tender mercies are over all His works," "steadfast love surrounds him who trusts in the Lord," and "underneath are the Everlasting Arms." Over, around, underneath. We are enfolded. Can you think of a safer place to be?
- Elisabeth Elliot
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.
- Walt Whitman