Bayonets Quotes

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Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

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.

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.

Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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 hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

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 established by bayonets.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.

All bayonets are bad.

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.