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Tag Name "Bayonets" (21)

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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
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
William Ralph Inge
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By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!
Andrew Agnew
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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.
Barack Obama
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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
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Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts
George S. Patton
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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
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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
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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
Robert E. Lee
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All bayonets are bad.
W. S. Gilbert
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Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
Barack Obama
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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.
Barack Obama
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Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets
G. H. Hardy
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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
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Light has spread, and even bayonets think.
Lajos Kossuth
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them
Napoleon Bonaparte
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
Ronald Reagan