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• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

  William Ralph Inge

  Trust, Peace, War

  Philosophy of Plotinus Lecture 22 (1923)

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• All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

  Peter Ustinov

  Boys, Men, Order

  "Romanoff and Juliet". Play by Peter Ustinov, 1956.

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• Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Struggle, Night

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

  Josh Mandel

  Marine, Islands, Paris

  "Glenn interviews Marco Rubio and Josh Mandel". Interview with Glenn Beck, www.glennbeck.com. November 2, 2012.

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• By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

  Andrew Agnew

  Military, War, Eye

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• Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Roots, Cold

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Principles, Firsts, Revolution

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.27

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• Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

  G. H. Hardy

  Bombs, Merciful

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• The General Order is always:
  ......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack.
  ......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline.
  ......To keep the troops constantly at the ready.
  ......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go.
  ......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion.
  And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.

  Lazare Carnot

  Military, Order, Discipline

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• Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

  Chesty Puller

  Bad Ass, Hell, Ass

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• War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Army, Government

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Able, Can Do

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• Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Thinking, Light, Intellect

  Lajos Kossuth (1851). “Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.111

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• Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Blessing, Divine

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• We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.

  James Madison

  Wisdom, Country, Hands

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• Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Running, Roles

  "Marilyn Monroe and Margaret Thatcher: the iron ladies" by Sarah Churchwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, War, Reality

  Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Letters to a Young Conservative”, p.209, Basic Books

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• At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Rain, School, Fire

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.65, Random House

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

  Horace Greeley

  War, Republic, Sections

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• The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.

  Studs Terkel

  Funny, Jobs, War

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• Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

  Voltaire

  Gun, Men, Law

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

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• Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

  Daniel Webster

  Thank God, Age, Influence

  Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.68

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