Famous quotes containing the words battle, group and/or received:
“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
“A little group of wilful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my lifeI wrote this some years agothat were worth the postage.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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