Battlefields Quote by W. E. B. Griffin

When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

— Jonathan Swift

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

— Chinua Achebe

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

— Douglas MacArthur

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

— Anonymous

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill…

— Thomas Carlyle

“MEN WAGE WARS for profit and principle, but they fight them for land and women. Sooner or later, the other causes and compelling reasons…

— Gregory David Roberts

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the…

— Joel Barlow

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

— Tom Waits

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

— Henry Ward Beecher