Famous quotes containing the words battle of, battle and/or move:
“I have just read your dispatch about sore tongued and fatiegued [sic] horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietem that fatigue anything?”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)