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Letter "D" » disarmed
«If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Enemies
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«Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.»
Author: Horace Mann
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Education
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«If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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«Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
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«Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
at the same time, disarmed, disarming, disarms, gentleness, manner, resentment, steadiness
«A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Right
| Keywords:
disarmed, disarming, disarms, holds, legal, legally, legal right, monopolies, Monopoly, physical, physical force, rights, the threat of, threat, victims
«I personally believe, as I think a lot of security Council members believe with 100% certainty, that Iraq being fully disarmed is never going to be possible. At the end of the day the Security Council must decide whether Iraq is disarmed to the exten»
«For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
caused, contemptible, disarmed, disgraceful, guard, prince, renders
«Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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«Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.»
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