War Springfield Armory

Famous quotes containing the words war, springfield and/or armory:

    “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Isaiah 2:4.

    “Perhaps you have forgotten me. Dont [sic] you remember a long black fellow who rode on horseback with you from Tremont to Springfield nearly ten years ago, swimming your horses over the Mackinaw on the trip? Well, I am that same one fellow yet.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “To these men
    The landscape is an armory of powers,
    Which, one by one, they know how to draw and use.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)