Combat Quotes - Page 4

• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

  Andre Gide

  Leadership, Patience, Peace

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• Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

  Worry, Soul, Moments

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.9

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• Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Fire, Sight, Opponents

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• Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

  Jeff Cooper

  Moral, Offensive, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sympathy, Rogues, Fool

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Women, Thinking, Valuable

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• Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Dignity, Virtue

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• We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

  Henry Adams

  Order, Sloth, Laziness

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 29

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• When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mark

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• A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

  Edward Abbey

  Army, Journey, Two

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• Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Hurt, Land, Helping

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• We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

  Jim Lehrer

  Military, Life Is Like, Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Female, Demand, Promotion

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• The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Presidential, Campaigns, Dry

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• Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water. Don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.

  Max Brooks

  Feet, Water, Survival

  "'It’s Sense & Sensibility & Sleestacks Now' The Max Brooks Interview, Part Two". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Learn to recognize and combat the enemies of potential.

  Myles Munroe

  Enemy

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Maximizing Your Potential Expanded (Large Print 16pt)”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first
  international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the
  adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the
  first human rights non-governmenta l organization. And yet despite
  the efforts of the international community to combat this abhorrent
  practice, it is still widely prevalent in all
  its insidious forms, old and new.

  Kofi Annan

  Real, Rights, Law

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• Now, six months after he sent the military back into combat to take on the terror group calling itself the Islamic State, Mr. Obama has acquiesced and sent a measure to Congress asking it to formally authorize what he has been doing all along. And now that they have gotten what they asked for, few in Congress seem all that enthusiastic about the prospect.

  Peter Baker

  Military, Islamic, Groups

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• I'm not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sex, Pride, Men

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• A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

  Jose Rizal

  Children, School, Effort

  Jose Rizal, Charles Derbyshire (1912). “The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish”

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• At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. You can face difficulties head-on, or run from them, or ignore them until they consume you. But no one escapes conflict. No one.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Running, Fighting, Challenges

  Bill O'Reilly (2006). “Culture Warrior”, p.1, Three Rivers Press

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• None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.

  Chalmers Johnson

  War, Loss, Fighting

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• The family that I live for only breathes the air that smells of combat.

  The Ultimate Warrior

  Warrior, Air, Smell

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2016

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• Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Government, Enemy

  "NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2013.

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• The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.

  Che Guevara

  Victory, Battle, Principles

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.54, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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