Machine Guns Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words machine and/or defeated:

    “The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotents.”
    —Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    “Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!
    There is no holier spot of ground
    Than where defeated valor lies,
    By mourning beauty crowned!”
    —Henry Timrod (1828–1867)