Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
"Saul", vi.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
“God made them as stubble to our swords.”
Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)
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Roger Williams (theologian) (1603–1684) English Protestant theologian and founder of the colony of Providence Plantation
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience (1644)
“As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.”
Ann Coulter book If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) English poet, critic and editor
Source: Poems (1898), Rhymes And Rhythms, II
“The sword is our steel Bible!”
Sadao Araki (1877–1966) Japanese general
Quoted in "Irving Wallace: A Writer's Profile" - Page 373 - by John Leverence, Sam L. Grogg - 1974
“Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.”
John Tyler (1790–1862) American politician, 10th President of the United States (in office from 1841 to 1845)
Speech in Congress (24 February 1834) against the policies of Andrew Jackson.
“Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
No more entreat the gods: with sword in hand
Seize on our fates; and Caesar in your deeds
This day is great or little.”
Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro.
in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book VII, line 252 (tr. E. Ridley).
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