George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
notes on combat written by General Patton were published in Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 30, July 29, 1943. http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt09/patton-notes-on-combat.html
“There are few sounds as menacing as a bayonet being fixed.”
Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 109.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "There are few sounds as menacing as a bayonet being fixed." by George MacDonald Fraser?
George MacDonald Fraser39
English-born author of Scottish descent 1925–2008Related quotes
“If you don't have ammunition, you have bayonets! FIX BAYONETS! GET DOWN!”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
Instructions to his soldiers to answer an ANZAC attack on Chunuk Bair (25 April 1915)
Jean Kerr book Please Don't Eat the Daisies
"How to Get the Best of Your Children"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
“Thus may the first Principles of sound Politics be fixed in the minds of youth.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania (1749), p. 22 http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=franklin_youth&PagePosition=1; the statement relates to the teaching of History as a subject, and the last quoted paragraph concludes with the footnote "†": Public Disputes warm the Imagination, whet the Industry, and strengthen the natural Abilities. <br class="br">Context: History will also afford frequent Opportunities of showing the Necessity of a Publick Religion, from its Usefulness to the Publick; the Advantage of a Religious Character among private Persons; the Mischiefs of Superstition, &c. and the Excellency of the above all others antient or modern.<br>History will also give Occasion to expatiate on the advantage of Civil Orders and Constitutions, how men and their properties are protected by joining in Societies and establishing Government; their Industry encouraged and rewarded, Arts invented, and Life made more comfortable: the Advantages of Liberty, Mischiefs of Licentiousness, Benefits arising from good Laws and a due Execution of Justice &c. Thus may the first Principles of sound Politics be fixed in the minds of youth.<br>On Historical occasions, Questions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice, will naturally arise, and may be put to Youth, which they may debate in Conversation and in Writing. When they ardently desire of Victory, for the Sake of the Praise attending it, they will begin to feel the want, and be sensible of the use of the Use of Logic, or the Art of Reasoning to discover Truth, and of Arguing to defend it, and convince adversaries.
“I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.”
Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela
Hugo Chávez speaking in October 2005 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1534596/The-wisdom-of-Chavez.html <br class="br">2005
“The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.”
Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur
Time, 1979
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar
“Life without prejudice,” p. 11-12.
Life Without Prejudice (1965)
“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Letter to John Adams (1774)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Art