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Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts -- George S. Patton
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. -- Ludwig von Mises
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. -- Boris Yeltsin
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root. -- Ronald Reagan
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. -- Barack Obama
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets. -- Douglas William Jerrold
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap. -- Alexander Suvorov
The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible. -- John Burgoyne
The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about. -- Alexander Suvorov
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes! -- Andrew Agnew
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. -- William Ralph Inge
The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers... -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. -- William Cobbett
It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line. -- George S. Patton
The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks. -- Kurt Vonnegut
You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. -- Barack Obama
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there ; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer. -- Ferdinand Foch
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. -- Robert E. Lee
My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights -- Ronald Reagan
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them. -- Thomas Hardy
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it. -- William Ralph Inge
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win. -- Mother Jones
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with. -- Josh Mandel
All bayonets are bad. -- W.S. Gilbert
Light has spread, and even bayonets think. -- Lajos Kossuth
Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets -- G. H. Hardy
You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them -- Otto von Bismarck
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. -- George Orwell
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets. -- Horace Greeley
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets! -- Rafael Sabatini
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement, -- Strom Thurmond
Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect. -- George S. Patton
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. -- Ludwig von Mises
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe. -- George Will
The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh. -- Amadeo Bordiga

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