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Quotes About Battle

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
~ John Sedgwick
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
~ Thomas Jefferson
All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.
~ Lou Reed
God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
In war is it who's right, or who's left?
~ Kenneth Cole
The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.
~ Pope Francis
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
~ Lucretius
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
~ William Shakespeare
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
~ William Shakespeare
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.
~ Julian Grenfell
We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.
~ Leif Enger
We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas
~ Sam Harris
The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
~ Edmund H. North
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
~ A.J. Hartley, Macbeth
If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.
~ Janet Morris
In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
~ Seneca the Younger
In war everybody is a prisoner.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin