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  • Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief. -- Martin Luther
  • People like me sound like a lot of big cannons. -- Mao Zedong
  • If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. -- Russ Carnahan
  • I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. -- Lenny Bruce
  • Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache. -- Lee Tergesen
  • The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. -- Thomas Hood
  • Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.... -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love. -- Steven Cojocaru
  • Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. -- John Roberts
  • If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. -- Helen Thomas
  • The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness. -- Charles Baudelaire
  • Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. -- Samuel Johnson
  • A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. -- Victor Hugo
  • We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. -- Dwight L. Moody
  • I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point. -- Monica Keena
  • Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. -- Fritz Kreisler
  • As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
  • There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
  • [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger. -- Aaron Huey
  • Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets. -- John Neff
  • Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing -- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. -- Jacob Aagaard
  • Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it. -- Israel Meir Kagan
  • Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. -- John Roberts
  • Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. -- Henry Miller
  • Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell. -- Voltaire
  • With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves... -- Mike Mignola
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