Pound Cannons

Famous quotes containing the words pound and/or cannons:

“Bah! there’s no wine like the blood’s crimson!”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Nothing could be so beautiful, so smart, so well drilled as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, oboes, drums, cannons formed a harmony such as was never heard in hell.... Candide, trembling like a philosopher, hid himself as best he could during this heroic butchery.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)