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Battle Quotes
"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
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"It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't."
15
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
14
"From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle."
14
"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."
13
"Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?"
13
"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
13
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."
12
"Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun."
12
"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."
11
"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."
11
"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
11
"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."
11
"The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle."
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"I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share."
10
"When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in."
10
"I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle."
10
"When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage."
10
"The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D."
10
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
9
"The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing."
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"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."
8
"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."
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"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."
7
"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."
6
"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."
6
"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."
5
"The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers."
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