"The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is…" — Alexander Suvorov
"The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap."
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21 Quotes by Alexander Suvorov
Alexander Suvorov has 21 quotes on this site.
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One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day…
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Win with ability, not with numbers.
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Accustom yourself to tireless activity.
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When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have…
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The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.
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The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.
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The more comfort, the less courage there is.
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If we had not driven them into hell, hell would have swallowed us.
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A hard drill makes an easy battle.
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To me death is better than the defensive.
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One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.
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Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.
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More Bayonet Quotes
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one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.
— Alexander Suvorov
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It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
— George S. Patton
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Where the hell do you put the bayonet?
— Chesty Puller
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Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight…
— George S. Patton
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Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in…
— Félix J. Palma
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In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is…
— Benjamin Tucker
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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers…
— Studs Terkel
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War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the…
— Edward Abbey
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Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the…
— Sam Houston
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