Retreat Quotes

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.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

It is contrary to the usages of war to cause your parks or heavy artillery to enter a defile, the opposite extremity of which is not in your possession; since, in the event of a retreat". they will embarrass you and be lost. They ought to be left in position, under a suitable escort, until yoU have made yourself master of thetermination of the defile.

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory. In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable.

The devoted onset of the Russian armies which saved Paris in 1914; the mastered agony of the munitionless retreat....has [Nicholas II] no share in these?