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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.

  John Danilovich

  Country, Use, Development

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• I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by the people we're trying to combat.

  Charles W. Freeman, Jr.

  Military, Thinking, Iraq

  "Does America even have a Middle East strategy?". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.vox.com. June 18, 2014.

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• Life is a fight. Don’t let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you.

  Tim McIlrath

  Fighting, Life Is, Situation

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• When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit, praying therewith for the overthrow of all the works of Satan done through the evil powers.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Attitude, Prayer

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.420, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Real, War, Men

  Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.222, Aegitas

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• The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

  A. J. Muste

  Mean, Evil, Survival

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• I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.

  Francis Gary Powers

  Smart, Airplane, Justice

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• Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

  David Suzuki

  Energy, Climate, Cost

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• How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

  Luke Scott

  Baseball, Golf, Men

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• Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.

  Abdul Kalam

  Issues, Views, Understanding

  Speech at the Banquet hosted by President of Philippines, mea.gov.in. February 04, 2006.

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• So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

  William H. Whyte

  Taken, Problem

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