"A man may build himself a throne of……" — William Ralph Inge
"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it."
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