fight - quotes

(Gaius) Julius Caesar, 100 BC-44 BC

was a Roman author, general, and politician

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

( attributed )

H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken, 1880-1956

was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945

was a German Nazi dictator, orator, and politician

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

( “My Struggle” (Mein Kampf), 1925 )

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

was an English economist and philosopher

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.