The keenest of political weapons. [ Bryant ]

A man of courage never wants weapons. [ Proverb ]

Their rage supplies them with weapons. [ Virgil ]

Toss'd on a sea of troubles, soul, my soul,
Thyself do thou control;
And to the weapons of advancing foes
A stubborn breast oppose. [ Archilochus ]

Necessity is the last and the strongest of all weapons. [ Livy ]

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons or devices. [ Publius Syrus ]

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons. [ Cervantes ]

O, let not woman's weapons, waterdrops, stain my man's cheeks! [ William Shakespeare ]

Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. [ Goldsmith ]

Logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all the offensive and defensive weapons. [ T. Fuller ]

Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. [ Zimmermann ]

A weapon is anything that can serve to wound; and sentiments are perhaps the most cruel weapons man can employ to wound his fellow man. [ Balzac ]

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love. [ Hosea Ballou ]

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, I swallowed it. So sue me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe. [ Whipple ]

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. [ H. W. Beecher ]