Battle Quote by Bertrand Russell

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

— Emily Dickinson

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“There was but one man at the station, and he informed us that Mosby had crossed a few minutes before at full speed in…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Only a fraction of his countrymen would give up their lives to win it (the war), and it was not his ambition to be…

— Joseph Heller

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if…

— James Wolfe

The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It was a vile and muddy war, and Yossarian could have lived without it—lived forever, perhaps. Only a fraction of his countrymen would give…

— Joseph Heller

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone…

— Anne Rice

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage…

— Adolf Hitler

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

— James Ellis

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

— Philip Sheridan

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such…

— Anton Walbrook