
“An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.”
At a Philadelphia fundraiser, as quoted in "Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’" http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/06/14/obama-if-they-bring-a-knife-to-the-fight-we-bring-a-gun/, The Wall Street Journal (14 June 2008)
2008
“An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.”
“Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.”
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2000s
“Load up on guns, bring your friends.”
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
2000s, Democratic National Convention speech (2008)
I, st. 4
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/