“The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not whether blood will have to be shed we know not whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.” KnowsWorldLongTwoTruthChristLosesLinesDarknessBloodBrotherBattleConflictDividedCampsBrotherhoodShedComradeshipAnti ChristArmed Conflict Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.” NeedsLongWarDependsVictoryBattleSoldier Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!” MenLongJoySongBattleGloryAngelWestSouthBlowEastCeaseChristmasMarchQuarrelsGood WillGlory Of GodGreat JoyNorth And South Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.” LongWarCertainCausesBornProduceBattleUniqueHatredUltimateForgottenAncientConvictionLegacyLong AgoFrontiersFanaticismUltimate Truth Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.” LongWarBattleProfoundDullTunnelsGranite Author:Wilfred Owen
“Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken, at some time in the year, by "old, unhappy, far-off things / And battles long ago", like Wordsworth's solitary reaper. We are a nation of immigrants, and not happy in our minds.” YearsMindLongHas BeensNationsDutyBattlePrejudiceUnhappyCanadaImmigrantsElsewhereSolitaryLong AgoCompelledIndigenousNot HappyImportsReaperWordsworth Author:Robertson Davies
“The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.” TryingLongLastsFightingSexSidesPartyRaceRepublicanBattleImmigrationPassingPassingsClockLong AgoPublic EducationFixationFighting Battles Author:Maureen Dowd