The constitution is paper, bayonets are steel.
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.
I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.
Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down from the boulder, still screaming, his v...
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.
A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.
More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: A prayer's as good as bayonet on a day like this.
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
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.
Suddenly, the brave warriors parading to combat with bugles and bayonets were replaced by the push of a button.
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.
