(1892 quotes found)
“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
Elizabeth II
“I do not know how the third world war will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the fourth... rocks."”
Albert Einstein
“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.”
Damon Runyon
“After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / So he laid down his arms.”
Thomas Hood
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
Jonathan Kozol
“The Prussian schoolmaster won the battle of Sadowa”
Helmeth Von Moltke
“For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.”
Bible
“That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing-the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“carry the battle to them.”
Harry S Truman
