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There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places. -- Alfred M. Gray
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership. -- Jim Webb
The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al Qaeda as being restricted solely to 'hot' battlefields like Afghanistan. -- John O. Brennan
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. -- Henry Waxman
Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire. -- Michael Leunig
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. -- Marshall McLuhan
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields. -- Marvin Olasky
This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized. -- Lupe Fiasco
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels. -- Chuck Hagel
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community. -- Randy Neugebauer
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. -- Joyce Maynard
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war. -- Suzanne Collins
Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common. -- Miroslav Volf
The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields. -- Joe Barton
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service. -- Jim Webb
In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards. -- Pete Hegseth
Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children. -- Clyde Edgerton
Companies arenâ??t families. Theyâ??re battlefields in a civil war. -- Charles Duhigg
As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields. -- Leo Tolstoy
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. -- Honore de Balzac
There are all kinds of courage in the world, and most of it takes place far from battlefields. -- Tessa Dare
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism. -- Leo Tolstoy
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. -- Victor Hugo
Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier. -- Hassan al-Banna
The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields. -- Mahatma Gandhi
REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. -- Ambrose Bierce
Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think itâ??s easier to fight than it is to heal. -- Ann Aguirre
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields. -- William Manchester
She's special. We used to unleash her on ancient battlefields just to see soldiers chop their best friends into pieces before falling on their own swords. (Deimos) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny. -- Mike Corbett
No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny." -- Mike Corbett
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields. -- Winston Churchill
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. -- Victor Hugo
One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough. -- Diana Gabaldon

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