Barack Obama
Politician
"Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets."
Bayonets quotes
Bayonets
31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them"
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them"
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"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."
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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."
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"Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root."
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"He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand."
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"A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb."
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