Grant Morrison
Comic Book Writer, Novelist
"A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries"
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Cannons
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Theodore Parker
Transcendentalist, Minister
"Intellect is stronger than cannon."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"God is on the side of the heaviest cannon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball."
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"Nick Cannon or Will never did it this ill."
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"Don't use cannon to kill musquito."
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"Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration."
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