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Battle Quotes


"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers."


"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."


"We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."


"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."


"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."


"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."



"Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it."


"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."


"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."


"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."


"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."


"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."


"Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?"


"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."


"So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead."


"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."


"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."


"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."


"No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy."



"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."


"The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care."


"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect."


"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding."


"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."


"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."
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