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Letter "R" » retreat
«My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I am attacking.»
Author: Marshal Ferdinand Foch
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attacking, centre, excellent, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats, situation
«I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.»
«I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
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Truth
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«I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
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«I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch- and I will be heard!»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
earnest, equivocate, inch, in earnest, retreat
«In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
advance, army, retreat, soviet, Soviets
«I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
alloy, alloyed, anticipate, benign, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, retreat
«In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
After the Revolution, plans, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats, revolution, written
«My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
haven, havens, resting, rest home, retreat, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd - How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper Solitude is sweet»
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