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Quotes About Attack

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off, but smitten down." The enemy must be met and destroyed in a "decisive battle
~ Ian W. Toll
Shortly before nine, Edwards returned to the air. In a quavering voice he pleaded with his listeners to believe him: "This is no maneuver. Japanese forces are attacking the island. This is the real McCoy!
~ Ian W. Toll
Halsey was known as an aggressive, emotional, risk-taking warrior who loved nothing more than to attack.
~ Ian W. Toll
A chagrined Yamamoto remarked that the raid "provides a regrettable graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.
~ Ian W. Toll
What's that? That's my attack poodle.
~ Ilona Andrews
Oh. So the best way to fight you is to strip naked and attack? His eyes flashed with a wicked light. Yes. You should try it and see what happens.
~ Ilona Andrews
Who the hell would attack the Steel Horse anyway? What was the thinking behind that? "Here is a bar full of psychotic killers who grow giant claws and people who pilot the undead for a living. I think I'll go wreck the place.
~ Ilona Andrews
Rene looked at Grendel. "What in the world is that?" "That's our mutant attack poodle," I told her. "Is he chewing on a gun?
~ Ilona Andrews
Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.
~ Ilona Andrews
I actually found contracting malaria in the Congo fascinating. Observing your body under attack from this microorganism and seeing how it responds is simultaneously fascinating and awful but maybe that's just because I'm a former biology teacher.
~ Jeremy Wade
I sometimes look on YouTube and see people label videos 'Anthony Yarde sparring his trainer Ade' but that is not sparring, that's just practice. We practice getting attacked, countering and attacking your opponent back, in intelligent ways.
~ Anthony Yarde
I always tried to defend high up the pitch, to be in the opposition's half and play the game there.
~ Louis van Gaal
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
~ Nick Rahall
If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
~ John O. Brennan
The attack on the transgender troops - disgusting, disgraceful, outrageous. It's just endless. And then you try to do your day job of finding good bipartisan work across the aisle... You're doing both all the time. I guess I would describe it as intense. Everything is very intense.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
Mexico attacked United States troops in 1846 because they had moved into disputed border territory; President James Polk used this as a convenient casus belli, but he was preparing a war message for Congress even before the attack.
~ Max Boot
I think scoring runs in the Ranji Trophy is a bit easier than in T20s because the fielders are always inside the circle at the start of the innings and look to attack. So if you push in the gap you will get runs. At the start it is not quite difficult, once you settle down it becomes easier.
~ Shreyas Iyer
Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.
~ Shimon Peres
I was on stage last night, and I gave a medical report about Donald Trump. I said he was hospitalized for an attack of modesty.
~ Mort Sahl
Trump's alliance with Russia's Vladimir Putin, in defiance of America's own intelligence community, the Department of Justice, and the bipartisan report of the Senate Intelligence Committee, forces us to face that the fundamental principles of our nation are under attack.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
Trump has never sacrificed anything for this country, and in fact, he has attacked people who have. It just makes me sick to my stomach when I see him attacking the mother of a fallen hero or John McCain. It just makes me sick to my stomach that this guy thinks he's prepared to be commander-in-chief.
~ Evan McMullin
Paul Ryan has shown more passion in attacking Trump than he has ever shown in defending Americans.
~ Paul Nehlen
Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.
~ Steven Hatfill