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Quotes About Fought

I could literally go on for pages upon pages about Mattis and how influential this man was to me and many others who fought alongside him.
~ Ryan Zinke
But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."
~ Philip Freneau
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
~ Rahm Emanuel
For history records the patterns of men's lives, they say: Who slept with whom and with what results; who fought and who won and who lived to lie about it afterwards.
~ Ralph Ellison
Other Punjabi tribes—Gakhars, Khokhars, Syals and Bhattis—are also said to have 'fought valiantly' but to no avail against Mahmud.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.
~ James Black
I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
~ Harry Belafonte
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.
~ Paul Brunton
To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.
~ Jeb Bush
This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.
~ Paul Robeson
Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states' rights. But history is not on their side. We cannot continue to glorify a war against the United States of America fought in the defense of slavery.
~ Roy Cooper
This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.
~ Philip Kaufman
The chief musician-a sergeant-led the twelve-nuan regimental band that provided entertainment as well as the music to which the army marched and fought.
~ Richard Bruce Winders
eloquently honour President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.
~ Ken Follett
And there at Venice gaveHis body to that pleasant country's earth,And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,Under whose colors he had fought so long.
~ William Shakespeare
I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.
~ Nipsey Hussle
In the amateurs we fought four or five times a week so we always had different opponents.
~ Gervonta Davis
This was why we fought to survive. For love. Vincent had it all wrong. I'd had it wrong. Love wasn't the most destructive force in the universe. Love is the universe. That is the point.
~ Kresley Cole
Let's be real: it's not always the No. 1 contenders who get the title shots. It's who they invest money in and who's kind of a known name. In the lighter weights, just being that I fought seven title fights in a row, I think I'm that guy.
~ Frankie Edgar
that countries follow their interests, not their sympathies—was engraved in Hamilton's memory, and he often reminded Jeffersonians later on that the French had fought for their own selfish purposes.
~ Ron Chernow
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
~ Patricia Ireland
I love the city and the people here. I've been with them for many years and I fought alongside them.
~ Bob Paisley
We've schemed and fought and loved until we are so entangled in hearts and minds that there is no way to set us free. God help us both, Harry, for we will never be rid of each other. Not even death will do that.
~ Sharon Kay Penman