Famous quotes containing the words day and/or battle:
“Sir Richard cried in his English pride,
We have fought such a fight for a day and a night
As may never be fought again!
We have won great glory, my men!
And a day less or more
At sea or ashore,
We diedoes it matter when?”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about twenty thousand on each side with the pox.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)