Fight Quotes

"I really fight for my privacy"

"Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability"

Frank Whittle, Inventor

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in"

Voltaire, Writer

"My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk"

David Carradine, Actor

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside"

Mark Twain, Author

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

Mark Twain, Author

"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

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

James Longstreet, Soldier

"That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war"

James Longstreet, Soldier

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

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Never fight an inanimate object"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"

George Carlin, Comedian

"I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet"

George Foreman, Athlete

"I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

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