Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

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.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Ah, colonel, all’s fair in love and war, you know.

Arms once taken up should never be laid down, but upon one of three conditions—a safe peace, a complete victory, or an honorable death.

Turf battles won't win this war. Teamwork will.

I need some more to drink. I have a war to fight.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

If they [the Russians] want to fight with me, let them come and we see who wins.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

Whatever miseries this war brings upon us, it is making us wiser, and, we trust, better. Wiser, for we are learning our weakness, our narrowness, our selfishness, our ignorance, in lessons of sorrow and shame. Better, because all that is noble in men and women is demanded by the time, and our people are rising to the standard the time calls for. For this is the question the hour is putting to each of us: Are you ready, if need be, to sacrifice all that you have and hope for in this world, that the generations to follow you may inherit a whole country whose natural condition shall be peace, and not a broken province which must live under the perpetual threat, if not in the constant presence, of war and all that war brings with it? If we are all ready for this sacrifice, battles may be lost, but the campaign and its grand object must be won.