Iron/precautions

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or precautions:

“Good iron is not hammered into nails, and good men should not be made into soldiers.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It is so manifestly incompatible with those precautions for our peace and safety, which all the great powers habitually observe and enforce in matters affecting them, that a shorter water way between our eastern and western seaboards should be dominated by any European government, that we may confidently expect that such a purpose will not be entertained by any friendly power.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)