Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can't do it, something holds them back... the same goes for shooting the enemy. We've got this fascinating evidence from the Second World War, and also from other wars, that most soldiers couldn't do it.

Rutger Bregman

I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.

Alexander Lebedev

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Boris Yeltsin

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Chuck Hagel

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Josh Mandel

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

Knute Nelson

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Ludwig von Mises

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Mary Harris Jones

While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and by the peaceful and voluntary sale of these goods and services to others, the State obtains its revenue by the use of compulsion; that is, by the use and the threat of the jailhouse and the bayonet.

Murray Rothbard

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.

Patrick M. Byrne

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.

Robert Charles Winthrop

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.

Robert E. Lee

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Ronald Reagan

Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can't do it, something holds them back... the same goes for shooting the enemy. We've got this fascinating evidence from the Second World War, and also from other wars, that most soldiers couldn't do it.

Rutger Bregman

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Thomas Francis Meagher

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Thomas Hardy