Good Fighting Quotes

• There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hope, Optimistic, Fighting

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• Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Fighting, Giving

  George Whitefield, Samuel Dres, Joseph Smith (1841). “Sermons on important subjects”, p.131

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• ... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.

  Edward Said

  Attitude, Fighting, Reality

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• Good fighting with you, Seaweed Brain." Ditto.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Brain, Annabeth

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• It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

  Enid Blyton

  Fighting, Bits

  "Five on a Treasure Island". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1942.

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• When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu “The Art of War”, Lulu.com

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• The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Fighting, Boys

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• French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Fighting, People, Good Fight

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.108, Random House

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