Battle quotes

Explore the fierce and unyielding spirit of battles through our collection of thought-provoking quotes, revealing the triumphs and struggles experienced in the art of war and conquest.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

- Jack Adams

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

- James Longstreet

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

- Colin Powell

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

- Henry A. Kissinger

I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

- Peter Mayhew

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

- Ahmed Yassin

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

- Douglas Haig

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

- James Wolfe

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

- Tacitus

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

- Roone Arledge

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

- Arthur Wellesley

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

- Philip Gibbs

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

- Arthur Wellesley

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

- James Wolfe

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

- Andrew Jackson

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

- Owen Arthur

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

- Alice Walker

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

- Heinz Guderian