menace quotes

   We shall never sheath the sword which we have not lightly drawn until Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than all that she has sacrificed, until France is adequatelyassured against the menace of aggression, until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed.

-Asquith
  Speech at the Guildhall, London, 9 Nov.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

-Wilson
  Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

In our lore, the Jewish family was an inviolate haven against every formof menace, frompersonal isolationto gentile hostility. Regardless of internal friction and strife, it was assumed to be an indissoluble consolidation† Family indivisibility, the first commandment.

- Philip Milton Roth
  The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography,'Dear Zuckerman'.