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Quotes About Battle

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
~ Daron Malakian
The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
~ Robert E. Lee
The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
~ Albert Einstein
Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
In war, discipline can do more than fury.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
~ John Piper
Forward, men, and mix with them.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
~ Vladimir Lenin
As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.
~ Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!
~ Andrew Agnew
God is always at war with sin
~ G. Campbell Morgan
We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo
I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.
~ Ben Gibbard
War is life war is the origin of all things.
~ Adolf Hitler
Speed is the essence of war.
~ Conor McGregor
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
~ Henrik Ibsen
War is the science of destruction.
~ John S. C. Abbott
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
~ Livy
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.
~ Anacreon
If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.
~ Bohemond I of Antioch
Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
~ Albert Einstein
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
~ Henry David Thoreau