Machine Guns Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words machine, guns and/or defeated:

    “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
    —Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)

    “After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    “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)