A Quote by Mary Harris Jones

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

Mary Harris Jones

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Always Bayonets Because Constitution End Had In The End Lost Miners Only Other Side Win

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Mary Harris Jones
American - Activist
August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930

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

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All bayonets are bad.

W. S. Gilbert

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

Horace Greeley

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

Kurt Vonnegut

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

Robert E. Lee

Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.

George S. Patton

Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Ronald Reagan

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.