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“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.”

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Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?”

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Author:Niall Ferguson

“The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.”

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Author:Bruce Catton

“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.”

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

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Author:Voltaire

“Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.”

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Book:The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Downing Street years, 1934-1940

Source: The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Downing Street years, 1934-1940

“From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate question in its politics. The one that triggers rage and sorrow; the one that asks is the price of blood too dear? Or, if it is to stay true to its convictions, does America have no coice but to put its lives on the line?”

“People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.”

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Author:Shelby Foote

“Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!”

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Author:Wendell Phillips