Bayonets Quotes

67 quotes by 50 authors

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
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
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… — Ludwig von Mises
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. — Ludwig von Mises
It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line. — George S. Patton
Where the hell do you put the bayonet? — Chesty Puller
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the… — Friedrich Engels
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Robert E. Lee
In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and… — Erich Maria Remarque
Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than… — Benjamin Tucker
If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should… — Thomas Jefferson
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root. — Ronald Reagan

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