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Battle Quotes
"Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured."
45
"The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else."
42
"Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail."
42
"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers."
42
"We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity."
41
"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
34
"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it."
33
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
27
"But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world."
23
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."
17
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
15
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
15
"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."
14
"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect."
14
"Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it."
14
"No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy."
13
"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."
13
"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines."
13
"So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead."
12
"If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary."
12
"It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet."
12
"Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?"
12
"I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it."
11
"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
11
"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
11
"All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year."
10
"Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed."
10
"The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care."
10
"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding."
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