Cradle Cannon

Famous quotes containing the words cradle and/or cannon:

“Willie couldn’t steal a vote from Abe Lincoln in the cradle of the Confederacy.”
—Robert Rossen (1908–1966)

“Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)