quotes about Bayonets
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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 SuvorovSource : "Nauka pobezhdat" by Alexander Suvorov, 1806.
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By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!
-- Andrew Agnew -
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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 HagelSource : "Chuck Hagel and Israel in context: A guide to his controversial statements". www.washingtonpost.com. September 4, 1998.
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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
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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 MazziniSource : Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.27
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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 -
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The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.
-- John BurgoyneSource : John Burgoyne (1860). “Orderly Book of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne: From His Entry Into the State of New York Until His Surrender at Saratoga, 16th Oct. 1777 : from the Original Manuscript Deposited at Washington's Head Quarters, Newburgh, N.Y.”, p.3
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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 -
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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 SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Scaramouche, A Romance of the French Revolution: the History Focus”, p.197, 谷月社
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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 -
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The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
-- William CobbettSource : William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters”, p.51
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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 WigmoreSource : John Henry Wigmore, John Theodore McNaughton, Peter Tillers, James Harmon Chadbourn (1974). “Evidence in trials at common law”