Musket Quotes

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too. You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through. - Iron Maiden

We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; furnished heartbreak by exile to some dozens of disagreeable patriots; subjugated the remaining 10 millions by Benevolent Assimilation, which is the pious new name of the musket. And so, by these Providences of God -- and the phrase is the government's, not mine -- we are a World Power. - Mark Twain

Today the big loser was Mr. Bush... the five musketeers. - Hugo Chavez

They were working with flashlights, and everything was dark and smelly and gross. It was just a couple of days underwater, and everything was rusty: flintlock muskets, pistols, swords and scabbards. The military uniforms were all reproductions, so we left those behind. - Pam West

There's nobody you can trust more than family... We were like the Three Musketeers times five. - Steve Goodman

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry. - Arthur Wellesley

The Three Musketeers turned out to be a real eye-opener for me, because I had no idea that I was good at comedy. - Raquel Welch

The Army, of course, has gone from liberating Boston to liberating Baghdad, from cavalry charges to tanks racing across deserts, from the snows of Valley Forge to the sandstorms of central Iraq, from patriots with single-shot muskets to Patriot missiles downing enemy missiles. - Donald Rumsfeld

Right on... I always thought of us as 'All for one, one for all,' like the Three Musketeers. There's an abiding camaraderie that pleases everybody. It's the life of the group. - Scott Carpenter