Quote by Boris Yeltsin

“You can make a throne of bayonets, but you cant sit on it for long.”

— Boris Yeltsin

“You can do anything you like with bayonets, except sit on them.”

— Talleyrand

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”

— George Orwell

“Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to…

— Herman Melville

“It was not a comfortable Throne, this seat made of stone. But power was not supposed to be comfortable.”

— Elizabeth D. Marie

“Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.”

— Roselle Mercier Montgomery

“Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.”

— John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

“You only truly possess that which you cannot lose in a shipwreck.”

— Anonymous

“don't just sit there sail something!”

— Chery Fee

“I’m beginning to think that thrones make tyrants of us all.”

— V.E. Schwab