Quotes About Battle

They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

It's an important fact of life, war.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

My sentence is for open war.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

My voice is still for war.

Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.