I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Belly buttons were a big battle of mine. Down at the syndicate, they would clip them out with a razor blade. I began putting so many of them in, in the margins and everywhere, that they had a little box down there called 'Beetle Bailey''s Belly-Button Box. The editors finally gave up after I did one strip showing a delivery of navel oranges.

Roderick Strong - we've had some of my favorite battles.

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

MMA is a sport. We go out here and we do battle. Everybody has family, friends, they train really hard.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.