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“It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.”

War Moments Battle Speech Brave Soldier

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.”

Firsts Littles Bigs Remember Terrible Scene Battle Speech Paper Jokes Drawing Backgrounds Odd Covered Bubbles Sheets Carnage Odd Things

Author:Anthony Browne

“We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.”

Trying Wells Has Beens Done Felt Known Wonder Audience Events Battle Speech Female Lays Prepared Versions Awe Shock Troops Well Known Monarchs Frontline

Author:Cate Blanchett

“The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.”

Heart Persons Fighting Three Battle Solitude Quiet Speech Sight Remains Hearing

Author:Anthony the Great

“When I looked at [Fannie Lou] Hamer and that speech it seemed to me that she had to be the bravest woman ever, to come before that body and to assert her rights, when she knew that she was going lose that battle. But she did it anyway, because she knew she was speaking not just for herself and for that day, but for me, and for all the other young women who were coming behind her. She didn't know our names, but she was working for us. I find that incredibly empowering.”

Knows Body Young Names Loses Behinds Rights Battle Speech Empowering Young Women

Author:Leah D. Daughtry

“It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.”

Humans Has Beens Made Important Animal Changed Battle Speech Property Complexes Kingdoms Fortunate Aggressiveness Animal Kingdom

Author:Tom Wolfe

“Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller.”

Way Giving War Enough Order Rooms Healing Fire Pieces Broken Needed Battle Bed Speech Filled Silly Kingdoms Tragic Competence Commanders Wartime Fray Broken Pieces

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.”

Thinking Men Giving Important Ability Forget Modern Position Expression Victory Battle Speech Claims Freedom Of Speech Interfere Restraint Modern Man

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.”

Freedom Opinion Battle Speech Election Institutions Presses Factors Freedom Of Speech Bureaucracy Assembly Caricatures Freedom Of The Press General Elections Freedom Of Assembly

Author:Rosa Luxemburg