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"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."
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"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."
"On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done."
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
"You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do."
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
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"As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'"
"All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'."
"I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men."
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