Threats Quotes

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

Loud threats often indicate deep fears

I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

To freemen, threats are impotent.[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.