Battle Quotes

Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

All real suicides, where people really died, were the result of a battle between being and mind. In those cases the mind won ...

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

I gave my life for freedom—This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

This is not a peace treaty, it is an armistice for twenty years.

My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.

Sometimes you lose battle. But mischief always win the war.

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead.

This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.

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

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.