Quotes
Quotes about Fight
We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure.
Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine, But he that flieth in good tide Perhaps may fight again.
He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure Peut combattre derechef.]
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Fifty-four forty, or fight.
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.
Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
A man can seldomâvery, very, seldomâfight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.
I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]
For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown, Have stirred up many zealous souls To fight against imaginary giants.
