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Quotes about battles
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
No battle is worth fighting except the last one. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
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. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
“It's a constant battle. We're constantly fighting it from both ends.” (Seton Ernest Thompson)
A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
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