“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
“It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.”
— Eduard Shevardnadze Cited in: North Atlantic Assembly. Political Committee (1990) Reports. p. 7
“The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.”
— Alexander Suvorov Nauka pobezhdat, Dokumenty, vol. III, p. 504, cited in af.mil
“A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.”
— William Ralph Inge Philosophy of Plotinus, lecture 22

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