Thursday 4 May 2017

Battle Sayings and Quotes



Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.    

Donald Trump






In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.    

Ulysses S. Grant





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

Dwight D. Eisenhower





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

Erwin Rommel





You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher





Where there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.

Pierre Corneille






We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle





Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway





War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell





War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.    

Mao Zedong





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

Ferdinand Foch





The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound





It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.    

Robert E. Lee





It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas Macarthur





All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.    

Benjamin Franklin





War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery





For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway





Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.    

Thucydides





No war is inevitable until it breaks out.    

A. J. P. Taylor





War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood





You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

John Greenleaf Whittier





Battle not with monsters lest you become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche





Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.

Janet Morris





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

Thomas Carlyle





No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Colin Powell





To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

George Washington





You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte





War is a defeat for humanity.

Pope John Paul II





There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli





If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells




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

Arthur Wellesley






Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.    

Martin Luther King, Jr.





Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway





War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Gilbert Parker





No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

Terry Goodkind





War is fear cloaked in courage.

William Westmoreland





War is the science of destruction.    

John Abbott






Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali





War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann





The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.    

Bob Marley





A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.    

Jean-Paul Sartre





In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Julius Caesar





No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

Enoch Powell





War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

William McKinley





Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.

Brad Thor





War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.    

Leo Tolstoy





Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.    

James Monroe





War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.    

Alexander Berkman





War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.    

Martin Luther





The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.    

George Orwell

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