Bayonets Quotes

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

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

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

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.

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

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

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

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

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

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.

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

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

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.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than 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.

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.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

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

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

All bayonets are bad.

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

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