You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.
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Televised speech (4 October 1993), as quoted in A Democracy of Despots (1995) by Donald Murray. p. 8
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Variant translations: You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.Boris Yeltsin
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'And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations' (Revelation 2:26). I see myself on a throne. Why should a throne be made of gold and velvet? Can it not as well be the few planks of a prisoner's bed? Men have given a certain kind of chair the name of "throne." I can give this name to any other object I please. From this my throne I decide about nations.
Richard Wurmbrand
How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne, and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power
Robert Jordan
"I remember. He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place."
"He said we had to build something…"
"That’s why we needed our full life, Pan... we wouldn’t have been able to build it. No one could if they put themselves first. We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we’ve got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we’ll build…"Philip Pullman
If you don't have ammunition, you have bayonets! FIX BAYONETS! GET DOWN!
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
If you don't have ammunition, you have bayonets! FIX BAYONETS! GET DOWN!
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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