Fighting

"We're gonna fight We know who's right (Not them) Time to unite We're having our say (Me and you) Oppressed us long They've done us wrong (Dumb fools) You stand up tall The futures ours (No rules) Me and you We're gonna fight the narrow minds Make are own rules Live your life at all"

"Fighting men are the city's fortress."

"Fifty-four forty (54° 40´ N.), or fight."

"The Minstrel Boy will return we pray When we hear the news we all will cheer it, The minstrel boy will return one day, Torn perhaps in body, not in spirit. Then may he play on his harp in peace, In a world such as heaven intended, For all the bitterness of man must cease, And ev'ry battle must be ended."

"Struggle is very tough and when you cross that line, you risk going to jail, getting seriously hurt, killed, and watching your comrades getting seriously hurt and killed. That is not a pretty picture, but that is what happens when you fight an entrenched oppressor. We are struggling and will make it rough for them, but struggle is also going to be rough for us too. This is why we have to find ways to love and support each other through tough times."

"If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation … an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power."

"BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."

"As long as women suffer as they do I will fight! As long as little children hungering go, as they now do, I will fight. As long as men go to the prisons, in and out, in and out, as they now do, I will fight. All who are not on the ship are in the sea. Every Soldier must do his utmost to save them."

"Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it."

"We must fight those who are committed to destruction, without replicating their destructiveness. Understanding how to fight in this way is the task and the bind of a nonviolent ethics and politics."

"For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain."

"For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again."

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

"They now to fight are gone; Armor on armor shone: Drum now to drum did groan, To hear was wonder; That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake; Trumpet to trumpet spake, Thunder to thunder."

"Qui fugiebat, rusus præliabitur."

"Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. [...] Men might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others."

"That same man that renneth awaie Maie fight again on other daie."

"On the wide and silent plain, darkening the bright daylight, she turns midday into darkness. People look upon each other in anger, they look for combat. Their shouting disturbs the plain, it weighs on the pasture and the waste land. Her howling is like Ickur's and makes the flesh of all the lands tremble. No one can oppose her murderous battle -- who rivals her? No one can look at her fierce fighting, the carnage, the engulfing water, raging, sweeping over the earth, she leaves nothing behind."

"War means fighting, and fighting means killing."

"You did not break me I'm still fighting for peace"

"It is an olde saw, he fighteth wele (well) that fleith faste."

"I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer."

"Though I have been trained as a soldier, and participated in many battles, there never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. I look forward to an epoch when a court, recognized by all nations, will settle international differences, instead of keeping large standing armies as they do in Europe."

"Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end."

"We fought him hard we fought him well Out on the plains we gave him hell But many came too much for Cree Oh will we ever be set free?"

"Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes Galloping hard on the plains Chasing the redskins back to their holes Fighting them at their own game Murder for freedom the stab in the back Women and children are cowards attack Run to the hills, run for your lives."

"There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight!—I repeat it, sir, we must fight!! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us!"

"Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might."

"We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear before and while we're Britons true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople."

"When I go into the hub of the battle, I go as one who brings forth its brightest light."

"The zeal of free men fighting for a cause has historically trumped imperialistic thuggism."

"These moments of nocturnal prowling leave an indelible impression. Eyes and ears are tensed to the maximum, the rustling approach of strange feet in the tall grass in an unutterably menacing thing. Your breath comes in shallow bursts; you have to force yourself to stifle any panting or wheezing. There is a little mechanical click as the safety-catch of your pistol is taken off; the sound cuts straight through your nerves. Your teeth are grinding on the fuse-pin of the hand-grenade. The encounter will be short and murderous. You tremble with two contradictory impulses: the heightened awareness of the huntsmen, and the terror of the quarry. You are a world to yourself, saturated with the appalling aura of the savage landscape."

"When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!"

"Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?"

"It don't seem hardly right, John, When both my hands was full, To stump me to a fight, John, Your cousin, too, John Bull! Ole Uncle S. sez he, "I guess"

"Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!"

"Truth is the light So you never give up the fight."

"Now deeper roll the maddening drums, And the mingling host like ocean heaves: While from the midst, a horrid wailing comes, And high above the fight the lonely bugle grieves."

"A man that runs away may fight again."

"There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come."

"For bragging time was over and fighting time was come."

"One doesn't fight only when one is optimistic. One fights because it is the right thing to do."

"O you who believe, when you meet those who disbelieve marching for war, turn not your backs to them. And whoso turns his back to them on that day unless manoeuvring for battle or turning to join a company -- he, indeed, incurs God's wrath and his refuge is Hell. And an evil destination it is. Because you slew them not, but God didst slay them, and thou smotest not when thou didst smite (the enemy), but God didst smite (him), and that He might confer upon the believers a benefit from Himself. Surely God who heareth and knoweth (all things). This -- and (know) that God will weaken the struggle of the disbelievers."

"Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout."

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."

"Brother Jonathan sat by the kitchen fire, Nursin' his foot on his knee. "It's a turrible fight they're havin' out there, But they can't git over to me." And Jonathan jingled the coins in his han' An' thanked the good God for the sea."

"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."

"The essence of combat is to strike at the vulnerabilities of one's opponent. There is no "fair" or "unfair"."

"So struggle! For struggle is life's flower; The fertile flower of life."

"How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle!"

"Sed omissis quidem divinis exhortationibus illum magis Græcum versiculum secularis sententiæ sibi adhibent, "Qui fugiebat, rursus prœliabitur:" ut et rursus forsitan fugiat."

"If there is no intense struggle today, there will be no meaningful results tomorrow."

"History is the unbroken march of struggle to advance humanity. Thus all struggles are connected, some more strongly than others."

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting … but no good reason ever to hate without reservation."

"When your mother and father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?"

"We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for."

"Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure Peut combattre derechef."

"It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!"

"He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made."

"Fight the good fight of faith."