Famous quotes containing the words battles and/or affect:
“In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species, might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch’s brow.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)