Top 55 Quotes About Bayonets
#2. A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
William Ralph Inge
#3. 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.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Boris Yeltsin
#6. Suddenly, the brave warriors parading to combat with bugles and bayonets were replaced by the push of a button.
Maggie Young
#7. Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets
G.H. Hardy
#8. The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mother Jones
#9. 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
#10. 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,
Strom Thurmond
#11. 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.
George S. Patton
#12. The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.
Amadeo Bordiga
#13. The guards were making a butcher shop out of the stairways. There was a hail of blows with chains, bayonets, and truncheons. They were breaking heads and arms.
Armando Valladares
#14. Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.
Voltaire
#15. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
Barack Obama
#16. We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies. Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position.
Shelby Foote
#18. 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.
Ferdinand Foch
#19. You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
Thomas Hardy
#20. When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut, the border patrols fix bayonets, the vigilantes get busy, and the walls go up.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#21. You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them
Otto Von Bismarck
#22. The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.
John Burgoyne
#23. Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts
George S. Patton
#24. You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw
Vladimir Lenin
#26. 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.
George Will
#27. The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.
Oliver DeMille
#28. He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
George Orwell
#30. A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.
Robert E.Lee
#32. In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.
Dinesh D'Souza
#33. More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.
Ludwig Von Mises
#34. By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!
Andrew Agnew
#35. The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers ...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#36. We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
Horace Greeley
#37. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..
Napoleon Bonaparte
#39. He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village.
Charles Dickens
#40. When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.
Josh Mandel
#42. 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
#44. Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.
Margaret Thatcher
#45. 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
#46. Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
Daniel Webster
#47. 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
#48. 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
#52. I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#53. Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished
Stonewall Jackson
