"But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that……" — Knute Nelson

More Bayonet Quotes

This quote is filed under Bayonet Quotes, one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about. — Alexander Suvorov
• 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
• Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight… — George S. Patton
• Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in… — Félix J. Palma
• 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
• Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is… — Benjamin Tucker
• If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead… — Thomas Jefferson
• The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers… — Studs Terkel
• War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the… — Edward Abbey
• 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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