Battle Quotes

“I have been in the midst of a battle, and I have seen the dead and the dying, but I have never witnessed such a scene of horror as I saw today.”

“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base.”

“For I have promised to do the battle to the uttermost, by the faith of my body.”

“The day of destiny.”

“For God's sake, come on!”

“Make it quick, men — this is a tight place, and we have got to get out of it.”

“Now pass thou onward, as thou wert wont, and Douglas will follow thee or die.”

“Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.”

“Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.”

“What is a modern battle? It is a series of isolated combats, of small bodies of men, fighting their own battles on their own ground.”

“I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor, but against power, against the pride of the world.”

“We're not fighting because we think we can win. We're fighting because we have to win!”

“If a victory is to be gained, I will gain it.”

“Casualties many; percentage of dead not known; combat efficiency: we are winning.”

“This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: there spread a cloud of dust along a plain.”

“We are not going to stay here and be slaughtered.”

“When it comes to the charge, let the word be 'Fág an Bealach'.”

“The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Red with the wreck of a square that broke; — The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.”

“The flashes of the guns lighted up the white tents of the camp for an instant, and then left them enshrouded in a darkness deeper than before.”

“Forward, Fifty-fourth, forward!”