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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom, Children, Same

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

War, Weapons, Stones

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein

War, Earth, Perhaps

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller

War, Against, Strike

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali

Change, Poverty, Nations

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton

Men, May, Victory

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu

Battle, Before, Makes

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Samuel Smiles

Life, Success, Struggle

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Women, Made

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
John Stuart Mill

Life, Experience, Sheltered

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, Beautiful, Heart

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce

Inspired, Won, Behind

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
Ezra Taft Benson

Greatest, Soul, Silent

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee

Fight, Long, Christian

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II

Problems, Prove, Wars

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
Lord Acton

Down, Later, Issue

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian

Change, Religion, Excuses

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis

Pretty, Wanted, Hollywood

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers

War, Thought, Understand

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson

Real, Place, Between

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'
Drew Barrymore

Work, Home, End

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
George Lucas

Today, King, Forgotten

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
Tori Amos

Religion, Vote, Fact

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton

Against, Alive, Necessary

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.
Brigitte Bardot

Life, Nothing, Made

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin

Life, Important, Victory

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
Doris Lessing

Political, Lives, Color

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
Henry Louis Gates

Revolution, American, Army

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
Thornton Wilder

Good, Moment, Excellent

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