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Tag Name "Battalions" (14)

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Voltaire
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Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.
Walter Scott
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare
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Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages legitimizes its outcomes gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
David Mitchell
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Wait a while there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
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If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.
Mike Jackson
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Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
Rick Atkinson
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Donald Trump is going to take our Army up to 6,000. And Obama and Hillary are going to take it down to 4,200. He is going to take our Marine Corps from 23 battalions to 35 battalions. And he's going to reestablish and modernize our nuclear program.
Rudy Giuliani
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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Voltaire
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The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down and the armed battalions of God march over him.
Wendell Phillips
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Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions where it can get a foothold it makes a stand where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.
Ambrose Bierce
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We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23.
Donald Trump
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I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.
Leonard Cohen
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They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!
Rafael Sabatini