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.
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.