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Battle Quotes - Page 13

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.304, Oxford University Press on Demand

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 618-19. Odes, Book I. 2. 23, 1922.

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's letter to the world on Ebola written and recorded especially for the BBC World Service's Newshour programme, soundcloud.com. October 19, 2014.

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

Sun Tzu, Einhard, Julius Caesar, Ardant du Picq, Niccol˜ Machiavelli (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.402, Lulu.com