Battles

(200 votes)   Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(140 votes)   In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(135 votes)   No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

John Enoch Powell
1912-, British statesman,

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(125 votes)   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.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
1837-1915, British Novelist, Playwright, Editor

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(123 votes)   France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(123 votes)   The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.

Sir Francis Drake
c.1540-1596, Elizabethan Seaman, Born in Crowndale, Devon

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(121 votes)   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
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(92 votes)   All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.

Ethel Lynn Beers
Poet

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