"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."

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"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."

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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."

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth · Battles · 0 fans >>
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"The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable."

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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."

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"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."

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"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack."

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"France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war."

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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."

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"Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win."

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