battle quotes

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

Life is warfare.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.