Quotes About Combat

Never run from the enemy, tackle them

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

La alegría de las cosas pequeñas es todo cuanto tenemos para combatir lo trágico de la vida.

Quiero ser un poeta fuerte, tan fuerte como Henry y John en su realismo. Quiero combatirlos, invadirlos y aniquilarlos.

Combatant, lacking the crossed shoulder belts of

Sin which is not confessed is also not combated

ALLONGE  (ALLO'NGE)   n.s.[allonge, Fr.]A pass or thrust with a rapier, so called from the lengthening of the space taken up by the fencer.

AGONISTES  (AGONI'STES)   n.s.[   Gr.]A prize-fighter; one that contends at any public solemnity for a prize. Milton has so stiled his tragedy, because Sampson was called out to divert the Philistines with feats of strength.

If you kill with homemade bombs it's called terrorism, and if you kill with machine guns and hunger it's called defense.

Not until Theodore Roosevelt resigned his prestigious position as assistant secretary of the navy in 1898 to fight with the Rough Riders in the Cuban dirt would there be a rich man as weirdly rabid to join American forces in combat as Lafayette was. The two shared a child's ideal of manly military glory. Though in Lafayette's defense, he was an actual teenager, unlike the thirty-nine-year-old TR.

What use was war without also love?

I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing glove if the other fellow has one too. - Sir Denis Nayland Smith

In his classic work, The Spiritual Combat, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli wrote: "This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly impossible.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.

A warrior does not kill because it is his wish to, but because he must. And because he has been made strong enough to do it. Killing is not easy. It shouldn't be. If it becomes easy for you... you become a killer.

It's the air force. They would have come through here and bombed the shit out of the place. That's what you smell. Toasted Nazis. Mmmmmh. Crispy.

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

We began to circle each other, looking for a tsuki, a gap in concentration, that would permit an attack.

Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.