. . .for if a society cannot protect its very structure from armed internal attack, it must follow that no subordinate value can be protected.
Armed Quotes
There is no nation on earth so dangerous as a nation fully armed, and bankrupt at home.
America, today, spends more on armaments and military than all the other nations of the world, combined.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms industry which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
“Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just” And four times he who gets his fist in fust.
Before all else, be armed.
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed.
When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns.
