"The power which money gives is that of……" — William Cobbett
"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
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William Cobbett
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34 Quotes by William Cobbett
William Cobbett has 34 quotes on this site.
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Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when…
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought…
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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who…
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his…
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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot…
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The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is…
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time…
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
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Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and…
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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More Bayonet Quotes
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one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.
— Alexander Suvorov
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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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Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight…
— George S. Patton
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Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in…
— Félix J. Palma
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers…
— Studs Terkel
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War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the…
— Edward Abbey
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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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