“The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.”

—  Alexander Suvorov

Nauka pobezhdat, Dokumenty, vol. III, p. 504, cited in af.mil http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1986/nov-dec/menning.html.
Compare with "The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about." from "The Science of Victory," 1796.

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