axe quotes

Who swinging his axe to fell kings, guesses where we go?

- Basil Bunting
  Briggflatts, coda.

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

- Friedrich Engels
  The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

There is more learning in their [Chinese] languagethan in anyother, fromthe immensenumberof their characters. It is only more difficult from its rudeness, as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
BOSWELL:JOHNSON:1778  Conversation, 8 May. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman'and the axe will fall when they raise meto the degreeof 'grandoldman'.Thatmeansonourcontinentany onewithsnow-whitehair whohaskeptoutof jailtill eighty.

- Stephen Butler Leacock
  My Remarkable Uncle,'Three Score and Ten'.

He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene: But with his leener eye The axe's edge did try.

- Andrew Marvell
  Of Charles I.'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'.

You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe on the Little Piney. His presence here is†an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we to give up their sacred graves to be ploughed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war.

-Red Cloud original name Mahpiua Luta
  Speech before war council at Fort Laramie,Wyoming.