Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
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[Many of these thoughtless, stupid remarks are uttered by sports figures, but not all. In 2002 Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., said the United States could have avoided what he called] all these problems, ... All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches.
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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
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The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets, the timid woman is not scared by fagots; the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious. T...
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You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets
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