#battle

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#soldiers #war #freedom

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#conflict #ideas #intelligence #progress #war

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

— Jack Adams

#battle #camp #harbor #midway #pearl

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

#cause #conviction #fail #fortified #forward

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields. ↗

— Joe Barton

#american #american flag #approach #battlefields #behind

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#battlefield #blessed #cause #debt #enough

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#battle #between #good #life #really

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more. ↗

— Ossie Davis

#battling #even #evil #gives #more

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#battle #beat #everywhere #eye #face