Bayonet Constitution

Famous quotes containing the words bayonet and/or constitution:

“The General Order is always to manoeuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.”
—Lazare Carnot (1753–1823)

“Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)