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~ War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ~

~ Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. ~

General George S. Patton

~ 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. ~

Andrew Jackson

~ By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ~

Theodore Bikel

~ A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield. ~

Victor Marie Hugo

~ Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. ~

Napoleon Bonaparte

~ I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory! ~

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

~ I think investors were looking for an excuse to take some profits after a blisteringly good pace in November. Higher energy prices near term, and the continuing battle in Washington over the course of the Iraq war have provided sufficient reason for investors to take a little profit. ~

Joseph Battipaglia

~ A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. ~

Bill Watterson

~ Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. ~

Jameson Frank

~ For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. ~

Norman Mailer

~ Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. ~

Norman Mailer

~ 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. ~

John Stuart Mill

~ As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him. ~

Augustus Y. Napier

~ The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. ~

Charles de Gaulle

~ A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~

Golda Meir

~ Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open. ~

Gerry Adams

~ In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him. ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior. ~

Jennifer Beals

~ It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. ~

Norman Schwarzkopf

~ History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this ~

Karl Marx

~ Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ~

George S. Patton

~ Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ~

Norman Vincent Peale

~ Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. ~

Pablo Picasso

~ Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. ~

Democritus

~ This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. ~

Tony Blair

~ Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere. ~

Bill Shuster

~ Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ~

General George Catlett Marshall

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