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Battle Quotes by James Longstreet
- My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours…
- General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run,…
- Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of…
- As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines,…
- General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
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- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;… — James A. Baldwin
- It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status… — Gerry Adams
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- You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy… — Scott Adams
- Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you… — Annie Besant
- Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
- By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to… — Theodore Bikel
- But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never… — Buffalo Bill
- This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. — Tony Blair
- When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit… — Erma Bombeck