“There was in the air the glamor of a battle, the holy battle raging for the assertion of a new truth. My youth plunged full in it.”

“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”

“Gentlest and bravest in the battle-brunt—
The Champion of the Truth—
He bore his banner to the very front
Of our immortal youth.”

“The fighter must seek battle in the air.”

“While the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.”

“With equal rage, as when the southern wind,
Meeteth in battle strong the northern blast.”

“My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.”

“Wut's words to them whose faith an' truth
On war's red techstone rang true metal;
Who ventered life an' love an' youth
For the gret prize o' death in battle?”

“I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.”

“When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.”