Fought Quotes

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Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid… — Rick Perry
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. — Katherine Anne Porter
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again. — Adrienne Rich
One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed. — Charles Peguy
That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much… — K.J. Parker
My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children,… — Mark Ruffalo
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment… — Thornton Wilder
LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why… — Wallace Stevens
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and… — Sylvia Plath
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which… — Thomas Jefferson
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with… — Vladimir Lenin
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. — Fletcher Knebel
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the… — Friedrich Engels
I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous… — Reese Witherspoon
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam. — Oliver Stone
If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We… — Simonides of Ceos
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the… — Philip Caputo
There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste… — William J. Clinton
People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle. — Kerri Walsh
They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That… — Eugene V. Debs

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