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.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.