And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations. . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.
Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad?. . . I think our judgment has to be clearly not.
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.
You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.
You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.
My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
