Murray Rothbard

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.

American Economist

Knute Nelson

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.

American Politician

Patrick M. Byrne

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.

American Businessman

Chuck Hagel

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

William Inge

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

English Clergyman

Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

French Statesman

Thomas Hardy

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

English Novelist

Ludwig von Mises

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Austrian Economist

Ronald Reagan

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

American President

Alexander Lebedev

Russian Businessman

The noun 'bayonet' is often used in historical or military contexts describing close combat.

Military Context

The phrase 'fix bayonets' describes the action of attaching the bayonet to the gun.

Attachment Process

'Bayonet' can be used metaphorically to signify aggression or forceful action.

Metaphoric Use

The verb 'bayonet' implies a violent, deliberate stabbing motion, often used in combat.

Violent Action

The action 'bayonet charge' refers to attacking the enemy line with bayonets, a strategy from older warfare.

Historic Battles

'Bayonet' as a verb vividly describes the act, useful for creating intense imagery in stories.

Descriptive Imagery

 soldiers said that the rebels looked as if to be on parade they marched out of the tree line their bands playing a drummers drumming the flags waving thousands of bayonets blending in the morning sunlight officers on horseback

Winston Groom: The...

 and they dressed us hurriedly. My brother and I were in the living room looking out the front window, and we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway. They carried bayonets on their rifles.