Bayonet Quotes
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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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More Bayonet Quotes
We will only leave our places by the force of the bayonet!
Mirabeau, Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de— 1789 Speech at the Se ance Royale. Quoted in Webster TheFrench Revolution (1919), p.50.
Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!
thomas "stonewall" jackson— Reply to Colonel Barnard E. Bee when he reported that the enemy were beating them back. At the First Battle of Bull Run (21 July 1861); as quoted in Stonewall Jackson As Military Commander (2000) by John Selby, p. 21
It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
george s. patton— Quoted in How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom (2010) by D.C. Gill, p. 70
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— Book I, On Production, Chapter XVII, Digression, p. 159
The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
alexander suvorov— Nauka pobezhdat, Dokumenty, vol. III, p. 504, cited in af.mil
The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.
alexander suvorov— From "The Science of Victory," 1796
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— Diary (14 March 1877).
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.
ronald reagan— Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1965
It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
— George S. Patton. Quoted in How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom (2010) by D.C. Gill, p. 70: Cited in Gill, D.C. (5 March 2010). How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Routledge. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-203-85626-0. Retrieved on 4 September 2013.
The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
— Alexander Suvorov Nauka pobezhdat, Dokumenty, vol. III, p. 504, cited in af.mil
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.
— Senator Robert Toombs, remarks on the secessionists in the United States Senate (January 7, 1861); reported in the Congressional Globe, vol. 38, p. 267.
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.
— Abraham Lincoln, Tour of Richmond (4 April 1865).
