Battlefields Quotes - Page 2

• The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Jobs, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.331, Best Books on

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• This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Rebel, Flags

  "From Pine Ridge to preacher pedophilia, Lupe Fiasco album aims to incite". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

  Moshe Dayan

  America, Long, Tables

  Moshe Dayan (1981). “Breakthrough: a personal account of the Egypt-Israel peace negotiations”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in the spiritual army is never off his battlefield. He is only removed to another part of the battlefield when a wound interrupts what he was meant to do, and sets him doing something else.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Army, Soldier

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• There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

  Tom Clancy

  Military, Character, Marine

  Tom Clancy (1996). “Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit”, p.2, Penguin

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• Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Men, Vegetarianism

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• REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Sleep, Blue

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.186, 谷月社

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• The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield, and resisting tyranny. In fact, it is the only means of resisting tyranny, since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized.

  Jeff Cooper

  Mistake, Mean, Gun

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.

  Etty Hillesum

  Inspirational, Running, Struggle

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.63, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the sternest battlefield for souls. Either way, the Lord your God goes before you, He shall fight for you!

  Amy Carmichael

  Monday, Morning, Fighting

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.44, CLC Publications

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• Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Women, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the world. People are saying they want to be perfectly convinced about climate science projections. But speaking as a soldier, we never have 100 percent certainty. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  Military, Issues, Impact

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• In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!).

  Judit Polgar

  Girl, Sports, Country

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• As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Elephants, Arrows

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• And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Jesus, Fighting, Enemy

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• We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  Waiting, Climate, Certainty

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• The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

  Rod Parsley

  Issues, Social, Court

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• This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, War, Home

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

  Janet Morris

  Time, War, Battle

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.358, Paradise Publishing

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• The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

  George Orwell

  Faith, Believe, Reality

  After World War II; quoted in the London Financial Times, 13 May 2003.

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• Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Conquer

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• On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.

  Robert S. Beecroft

  Military, War, Struggle

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• The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

  Mike Pence

  Morning, War, Iraq

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• At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Home, Men

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• The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

  James Mattis

  Enemy, Important, Ears

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