Battle Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We…

— Roger Kimball

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

— Adolf Hitler

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

— Hannah Arendt

“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.”

— Robert Harris

“Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.”

— Winston Churchill

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

— Paulo Coelho

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

— Simon Schama

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”

— Will Durant

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

— Hideki Tojo

“In this the seat our Conqueror has given? And this the climate we must change for heaven? These Regions and this realm my wars…

— John Dryden