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Quotes About Battle

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
~ Arthur Koestler
Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.
~ Troy Polamalu
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
~ George Orwell
If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.
~ Richard Branson
History has been the history of warfare.
~ Godfrey Reggio
There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.
~ Henry M. Cist
Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.
~ Tom Vilsack
Leave your 9's at home and bring ya skillz to the battle.
~ Jeru the Damaja
It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.
~ Andrew Niccol
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
~ Cal Thomas
We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.
~ Ibn Warraq
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
~ Thomas Carlyle
France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
~ Abdoulaye Wade
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.
~ Veronica Roth
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
~ Oscar Wilde
We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.
~ Jerry Falwell
Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!
~ Jim Butcher, White Night
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they're dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.
~ Rick Riordan
I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.
~ Jennifer Estep, Dark Frost