"A Union that can only be maintained by……" — Robert E. Lee
"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 love and kindness, has no charm for me."
More Bayonets Quotes
- 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! — Unknown Author
- History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....… — 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… — George S. Patton
- A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population… — Friedrich Engels