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  • 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.

  • All bayonets are bad.

  • He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

    Hate   Heart   Eye  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies”
  • 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.

    Country   War   Reality  
    Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Letters to a Young Conservative”, p.209, Basic Books
  • Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.

    War   Light   Hands  
  • 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.

    Home   School   Army  
  • Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

    Peace   Bayonets   Chains  
  • 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.

    Horse   Navy   Example  
    "Scientifically speaking, who's funnier: Democrats or Republicans?" by Joel Warner and Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. October 23, 2012.
  • Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

    War   Roots   Bayonets  
    Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London
  • 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.

    Children   Real   War  
  • I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

    Jesus   Gun   Tears  
    Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.84, New Directions Publishing
  • 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.

    Wisdom   Country   Heart  
    Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.40, Cambridge University Press
  • You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

  • Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

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

    "A Democracy of Despots" by Donald Murray, (p. 8), 1995.
  • A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

    Trust   Peace   War  
    Philosophy of Plotinus Lecture 22 (1923)
  • It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.

    Eye   Army   Bayonets  
    "How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom". Book by D.C. Gill, p. 70, 2010.
  • You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

    Horse   Military   Land  
    Barack Obama's remarks in the Third Presidential Debate at the Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 23, 2012.
  • A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

    Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.503, Harvard University Press
  • 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, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.159
  • I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.

  • My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by the use of the national army.

    Wise   Army   Thinking  
    Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 14, 1877.
  • 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.

    Country   Running   Roles  
    "Marilyn Monroe and Margaret Thatcher: the iron ladies" by Sarah Churchwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.
  • Fear kills, want to kill. Fear is destructive. Love is creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you may like to sing a song, paint, write poetry, but you would not take a bayonet or an atom bomb and go rushing off madly to kill people who are absolutely unknown to you, who have done nothing, who are as unknown to you as you are to them.

    Song   Love You   Writing  
  • The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

    Bayonets   Bullets   Fool  
    "Nauka pobezhdat" by Alexander Suvorov, 1806.
  • But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

    Mother   Men   Hands  
    "Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)". Book by Erich Maria Remarque, 1929.
  • A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

    Peace   War   Order  
    Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press
  • Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet... You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence...but I doubt it.

    Brother   Husband   War  
  • The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

    Military   War   Mad  
    "The Science of Victory". Book by Alexander Suvorov, 1796.
  • The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

    Giving   Bayonets   Force  
    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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