War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas Carlyle

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Gerry Adams

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
Gerry Adams

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
Dorothy Day

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
Neil Young

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.
Thomas Hobbes

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
John Burroughs

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
Heinz Guderian

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
Dale Earnhardt

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
Neil Gaiman

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
David Suzuki

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
Richard M. DeVos

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar N. Bradley

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
John Stuart Mill