Bayonets famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.
-- Alexander Lebedev -
The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!
-- Andrew Agnew -
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
-- Barack Obama -
Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.
-- Chuck Hagel -
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets
-- G. H. Hardy -
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini -
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
-- Horace Greeley -
The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.
-- John Burgoyne -
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.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter -
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them
-- Otto von Bismarck -
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!
-- Rafael Sabatini -
If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
-- William Cobbett -
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
-- William Ralph Inge -
Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.
-- John Henry Wigmore
