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Battle Quotes


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."


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


"June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."


"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."


"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."


"I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle."
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