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Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual...

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

Quote by John Adams about self-control

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Quote by Thomas Paine about war, law, order, use, world

Arms clasped around them, the knees support my forehead and I don't know why so warm the eyes of the sky seem and so deep... they tell me to sleep... I am not yet born, a bird waiting for its flight...

Quote by Mariana Fulger about flight, sleep, sky, eyes

You cannot hold everybody in your arms. You can hold in your arms only a man. If that man is the loved one, then you can say that you are holding the entire world in your arms.

Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about love, man, world

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you

Quote by Muhammad Ali about age, people, day, life

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and...

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Quote by Aristotel about guvernement, people

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are...

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Quote by Winston Churchill

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my...

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Quote by Princess Diana about suffering, voice, face

Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation

The inevitable result was the balance of power, the arms...

The inevitable result was the balance of power, the arms race, the dividing up of the world into rival alliances, and ultimately, war.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about war, power, world

Louie Armstrong don't have no signed paper. I know what...

Louie Armstrong don't have no signed paper. I know what you said, and you know what I said, and if that ain't enough, baby, we better split.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in...

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about imagination, happiness, man

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, man

My first interests were Jelly Roll Morton and the...

My first interests were Jelly Roll Morton and the Armstrong Hot Five.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about interest

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search...

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about good, good luck

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about nation, children

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about violence, problems, man

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread...

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Quote by Ron Paul about example, force, police, good, good luck

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician, things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music, garden, memory, things, night, old, olderness

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing...

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music

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