Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter X · Terrain
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948) Chapter 19 (Prague, Albania, and the Polish Guarantee).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
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“When you fight – fight to win.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Thatcher, Margaret (2002). Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-095912-6.
“When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.”
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
As quoted by Robert C. Martin in Software Development magazine (September 2005), p. 60
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
This quote is widely attributed to Margaret Thatcher on various websites, and also appears in a number of books, including The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press (1989), ed. Robert Andrews, p. 320 : ISBN 0231069901. 9780231069908 , but without any further source information such as date, location or any other context. <br class="br">One valid Thatcher quote which may be the basis for the version above appears in the Second Carlton Lecture http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105799 (‘Why Democracy Will Last’), delivered at the Carlton Club, London (November 26, 1984) : Mr. Chairman, each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can’t take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. You know that marvellous quotation from Goethe : ‘That which thy fathers bequeathed thee / Earn it anew if thou would possess it.’ <br class="br">Thatcher also expressed this thought in a Speech to Atlantic Bridge (May 14, 2003) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/111266, delivered at the St. Regis Hotel, New York City : My friends, every generation has to fight anew the battle for liberty. <br class="br">Disputed
George Eliot book Scenes of Clerical Life
" Janet's Repentance http://classiq.net/george-eliot/janets-repentance/index.html" Ch. 6 <br class="br">Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Elyas Machera
Variant: Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.
Source: The Eye of the World (15 January 1990)
Robert M. Edsel (1956) American art historian
Source: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Merle Shain (1935–1989) Canadian writer
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)