- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fight Quotes
Historical words on standing your ground.
This collection of fight quotes includes historical rhetoric about fighting for a united Europe and the case against tolerating imperialism at home while opposing it abroad. Several reflect mid-20th-century debates about liberty that still read as pointed today. Related content appears in our Fighter quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.
- Desolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
- Nov 07, 2020
My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.
- Deduction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The National Multifamily Housing Council, a trade association of apartment owners, managers, developers and lenders, has come to the defense of the interest deduction and other provisions favorable to the real estate industry, describing them as 'core principles' and promising a fight.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.
- Nov 07, 2020
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.
- Boxing Match
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020