The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched. – Caleb Cushing
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin. – Alexander Cockburn
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. – Billy Hughes
Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. – The Bible 1 Samuel 17:45
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. – Benjamin Whichcote
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. – Alexander Hamilton
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon. – Dustin Diamond
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. – Gordon W. Allport
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
It’s an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas. – Elizabeth McCracken
I didn’t read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock – the sword and sorcery novels – when I was about 13 or 14. – Geoff Dyer