It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!
All bayonets are bad.
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
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.
A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.
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.
My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!
