Combat Quotes

• The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Things In Life, Victory, Important

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• If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period." "Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.

  Tamora Pierce

  Fighting, People, Pounds

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Page: Book 2 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.59, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

  Jimmy Carter

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Peace

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Warrior, Doe

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• I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

  Oliver North

  Kids, Marine, Dollars

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

  Plato

  Plato, Conflict, Earthly Desires

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.118

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• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

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• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Witty, Military

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• True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Life, Sports, Hero

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• In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

  Bruce Lee

  Technique, Spontaneity, Performances

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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Hate

  Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

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• Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

  George F. Kennan

  Hero, Marine, Endurance

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• A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, War, Military

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• Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Self Esteem, Enemy, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.407, Wordsworth Editions

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• Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

  David M. Shoup

  Military, Marine, Winning

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• The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

  William James

  Stress, Weapons, Ability

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  People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  Richard Grenier

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

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• Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.

  Clint Smith

  Military, Gun, Fire

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• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Death, Peace, War

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• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Military, War

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  Barack Obama

  Goal, Trying, Bombs

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.

  Li Peng

  Support, Effort, Community

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• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Games, Pace

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• The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Errors, Victory, Obstacles

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