Quotes About Battle

But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!

Battle is not a game, and I had no desire to make myself available to any presumptuous ass who thought otherwise.

No mida kuradit! Lahing ei kuulu alati tugevatele ja võitma kipuvad meeldivad tüübid, sest just nemad kirjutavad pärast mälestusi.

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

Hamilton saw America's essential nature being forged in the throes of battle, and that made honest action imperative.

The constant session of Congress cannot be necessary in times of peace," said Thomas Jefferson, who wanted to replace it with a committee.64 Slowly but inexorably, the future battle lines were being drawn between those who wanted an energetic central government and those who wanted rights to revert to the states.

would mark the start of periodic warfare between

When a[n Afghan Arab] fighter fell, his comrades would congratulate him and weep because they were not also slain in battle.

War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his." Gen. George S. Patton

Infantry. That stuff matters over there.

Here's to bloody wars and dread diseases

It's what we say in the army when we're going to beat someone to death.

mano a mano

around at his side and flailing back

wrestling with the brawler's

from The Art of War by Sun-tzu: To fail to take the battle to the enemy when your back is to the wall is to perish.

When the Americans flocked to pragmatism, they believed that they were joining a battle to advance their essential view of reality and of life. They did not know that they were being marched in the opposite direction, that the battle had been calculated for a diametrically opposite purpose, or that the enemy they were being pushed to destroy was: themselves.

Both sides in Germany's cultural battle elevated feeling above reason. And both sides experienced the same basic kind of feeling. The left called it alienation or the angst of nothingness. The right called it götterdämmerung or the philosophy of Schopenhauer. The common denominator is the conviction of doom.

One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

You know, he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off. pg. 199

She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

But how did you fight an enemy who never fought fair? Didn't you have to break the rules to win against the Devil?

it's unsportsmanlike to engage in a battle of wits with anyone who is obviously unarmed.

Hurry, Hector urged, and his voice changed as his power surged, his tone and cadence sliding into the rhythm that said he was seeing the future. Battle is in the air. I smell it. I can almost touch it. Death is coming Death is coming for us. With a click, the call disconnected.