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Tag Name "Bayonet" (22)

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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.
William C. Bryant
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I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.
Alexander Lebedev
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The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
Alexander Suvorov
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Where the hell do you put the bayonet?
Chesty Puller
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Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
Daniel Webster
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Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
Félix J. Palma
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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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War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.
Milton Berle
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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.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished
Stonewall Jackson
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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 Cobbett
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The bullet is a mad thing only the bayonet knows what it is about.
Alexander Suvorov
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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
Benjamin Tucker
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Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.
Chuck Hagel
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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
Emily Dickinson
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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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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!
Stonewall Jackson
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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.
Wilfred Owen