#cannons

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#cannons #like #lot #me #people

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#attention #call #cannons #does #fire

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest