
As quoted in the October 2006 publication of Field Manual 6-22 (FM-22-100): Army Leadership by Headquarters, Department of the Army, p. 4-5
Police Gazette Oct 13, 1900. Walcott issued challenges to Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin and even champion Jim Jeffies, though they all declined.
As quoted in the October 2006 publication of Field Manual 6-22 (FM-22-100): Army Leadership by Headquarters, Department of the Army, p. 4-5
“"Undisputed heavyweight champion." Well, if it's undisputed, what's all the fighting about?”
Books, Napalm and Silly Putty (2001)
[George W. Joseph: His Life, Lester, Adams, Lois P. Myers, 1931, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 92 pages, 1-4325-9812-0] Page 47 (lists 10/7/03.)
“I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me.”
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)
Context: I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.
“I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.”
Last words, to his brother Theo, in Grace Hospital of Detroit, Michigan (30 October 1926), quoted in Houdini, The Man Who Walked Through Walls (1959) by William Lindsay Gresham, p. 286, and in Final Séance : The Strange Friendship between Houdini and Conan Doyle (2001) by Massimo Polidoro, p. 204
“I am making a good fight for the old country & there is no one but me who could do it.”
Quoted in Frances Stevenson's diary entry (11 March 1919), A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: A Diary (London: Hutchinson, 1971), p. 171
Prime Minister
“I am not of any faction, I will fight them all.”
Je ne suis d'aucune faction, je les combattrai toutes.
Discours pour la défense de Robespierre http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/discours/stjust_defense_robespierre_27_07_94.htm, speech to the National Convention (July 27, 1794).
“I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.”
2010-, Never Sorry, 2012
“Another white man's trick! Let me go! Let me die fighting!”
During the final confrontation in which he was fatally wounded, as quoted in Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1919) by Charles Alexander Eastman
2015-10-22, Valdai Forum. http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2015/10/putin-on-isis-when-a-fight-is-inevitable-you-hit-first/
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