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All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3768/view">All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/593/Ethel_Lynn_Beers">Beers, Ethel Lynn</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3769/view">When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/832/Napoleon_Bonaparte">Bonaparte, Napoleon</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3770/view">There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/914/Mary_Elizabeth_Braddon">Braddon, Mary Elizabeth</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3771/view">The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2120/Sir_Francis_Drake">Drake, Sir Francis</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3772/view">Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2267/George_Eliot">Eliot, George</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3773/view">A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2540/Ferdinand_Foch">Foch, Ferdinand</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3774/view">My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2540/Ferdinand_Foch">Foch, Ferdinand</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3775/view">France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2762/Charles_De_Gaulle">Gaulle, Charles De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3776/view">War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3470/Thomas_Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3777/view">Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4126/Jonathan_Kozol">Kozol, Jonathan</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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No battle is worth fighting except the last one. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3778/view">No battle is worth fighting except the last one..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5813/John_Enoch_Powell">Powell, John Enoch</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3779/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6649/George_Bernard_Shaw">Shaw, George Bernard</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3780/view">After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7227/Henry_David_Thoreau">Thoreau, Henry David</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3781/view">Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7325/Barbara_Tuchman">Tuchman, Barbara</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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