Bayonets Quotes
67 quotes by 50 authors
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
— Boris Yeltsin
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The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.
— Alexander Suvorov
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By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!
— Andrew Agnew
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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
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A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
— Ludwig von Mises
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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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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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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…
— Félix J. Palma
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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
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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
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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 the attack with hand-grenades and…
— 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 me will go when the…
— 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 neither more nor less than…
— 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 of its hearts, where should…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
— Ronald Reagan
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