#Battle Quotes

“Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.”

“God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!”

“Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!”

“Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.”

“Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!”

“I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.”

“Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.”

“The fewer men, the greater share of honor.”

“Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.”

“not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.”

“No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.”

“Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second”

“In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.”

“Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.”

“Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes”

“Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.”

“Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.”

“If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.”

“Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.”

“In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.”

“The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.”

“When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.”

“Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.”

“And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.”

“Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!”

“Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!”

“Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!”

“It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.”

“He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.”

“I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.”

“And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.”

“And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand.”

“There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.”

“I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.”

“A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.”

“And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.”

“But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!”

“Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!”

“Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.”

“Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.”

“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.”

“Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.”

“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.”

“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watchingmen fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

“Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.”

“All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.”

“Never let the enemy pick the battle site.”

“If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.”

“Battle... brings out all that is best.”

“No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.”