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Quotes About Battle

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
~ Lewis Carroll
It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.
~ Lewis Carroll
By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a relentless war between good and evil which has to be fought whether one likes it or not.
~ Radhika Mundra
I am always at peace even when I am in the midst of war.
~ Debasish Mridha
When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle.
~ Debasish Mridha
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
~ Homer
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
~ Herbert Hoover
So really…what is war? A senseless battle between men's inflated ego.
~ Kathy McClary
I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.
~ Kristin Cashore, Fire
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
~ Leon Trotsky
Love is a conquest! Love is war!
~ Marissa Meyer, Fairest
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
~ Heinrich Heine
Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them."Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?
~ Erin Hunter, Night Whispers
for years now there had been no country here but the war.
~ Michael Herr, Dispatches
* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.
~ Pindar
...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.
~ James D. Hornfischer
Engage the enemy more closely.
~ Charles Faddis
The holy war is only within.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
The holy war is within.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The warrior must never get angry in war.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Only in war does the madman become sane.
~ Anthony Ryan, Queen of Fire
Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now, " said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.
~ Omar El Akkad, American War