As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.
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We will only leave our places by the force of the bayonet!
Mirabeau, Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte deThen, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!
thomas "stonewall" jacksonIt is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
george s. pattonThe 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 sayThe bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
alexander suvorovThe bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.
alexander suvorovI favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.
ronald reaganIt is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
They appealed to the Constitution, they appealed to justice, they appealed to fraternity, until the Constitution, justice, and fraternity were no longer listened to in the legislative halls of their country, and then, sir, they prepared for the arbitrament of the sword; and now you see the glittering bayonet, and you hear the tramp of armed men from your capital to the Rio Grande.
In reference to you, colored people, let me say God has made you free. Although you have been deprived of your God-given rights by your so-called masters, you are now as free as I am, and if those that claim to be your superiors do not know that you are free, take the sword and bayonet and teach them that you are; for God created all men free, giving to each the same rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.