Quotes About Battle

The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity... then you are going to be surprised.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

Near a war is always not very near.

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.