Quotes About Battle

With only sixty men to hold off four hundred Americans, the British commander of the redoubt, a Major Campbell, surrendered to Laurens. Afterward, when an unhinged captain from New Hampshire threatened Campbell with his bayonet, Hamilton stepped between them, because rules were rules.

Saratoga was the turning point of the war, the most spectacular patriot victory to date.

The life of man upon earth is a warfare … — JOB 7:1

Moreover, we cannot ascend to heaven if we flee the battle. God has destined us, the Church, to be the Bride of the Lamb. Yet we cannot rule if we do not first conquer the forces that oppose us, the powers who are pretenders to our throne.

The Mass, it seems, is like the Normandy invasion in the spiritual realm.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

With disciplined, with fierce, mute anger, Unconquerable battle lust, O Northern manhood's finest flower, O nonpareil youth of the East, 9790 Who wear the lightning of bright armor, Who break great empires like a reed— You pass, and thunder follows after, The earth shakes underneath your tread.

Nichts Bessers weiß ich mir an Sonn- und Feiertagen Als ein Gespräch von Krieg und Kriegsgeschrei, Wenn hinten, weit, in der Türkei, Die Völker auf einander schlagen.

All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat.

I haven't lost a battle yet but I am tensefor the first losing.

I fought till my sword did cleave to my hand; and then they were joined together as if a sword grew out of my arm; and when the blood ran through my fingers, then I fought with most courage.

A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

Faced with a real fight, most animals will compromise. If the odds look bad, one or another will back off, or the fight will be discontinued by mutual consent. Humans are the only animals prepared to fight for a Pyrrhic victory.

The great game of life is not about money; it is about doing your best to join the battle to build anew ourselves, our communities, our nation, and our world.

Indeed in all ages Satan seems to have fought more violently against free justification by faith than against any other teaching, striving to extinguish it and smother it.

He should creep on by clandestine acts, and not contend in open battle according to the practice of those who excel in courage; he should secretly try many schemes, and thus stealthily extend his empire.

The wipers battled against the storm. Miller thought the snow coming at them was like Captain Kirk standing on the bridge of the Enterprise and watching the stars coming at him through the windows. Never-ending. Relentless.

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.

There are places where years have no meaning, where only a hair's breadth of history separates the present from the past. Standing there on that bleak hillside, a young man in a place where other young men had died, it was possible to feel a connection to that past, a sense that in some place further back on the the stream of time these young men were still fighting, and still dying, that they would always be fighting this battle, in this place, over and over again, with ever the same end.

A sword wants to be used. It wants to draw blood. That is why it was forged, and it has no other purpose in the world. If you do not control it, then it will control you.

Flurries of snow obscured the view through the windows, but they were halfhearted and ultimately inconsequential, like the parting shots of a defeated army. Angel

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

In anguish we upliftA new unhallowed song:The race is to the swift;The battle to the strong.