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  • I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  • I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

    The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)
  • The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.

    War   Navy   Ships  
    "American Caesar". Book by William Manchester, p. 195, 1978.
  • If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.

  • You remember the Duke of Wellington was talking of the Battle of Waterloo when he said that it was not that the British soldiers were braver than the French soldiers. It was just that they were brave five minutes longer. And in our struggles sometimes that's all it takes-to be brave five minutes longer, to try just a little harder, to not give up on ourselves when everything seems to beg for our defeat.

  • Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

    God   Fall   Winning  
    "The Hamilton Speaker (The Battle of Waterloo)". Book edited by Oliver Ernesto Branch, 1878.
  • You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

    Hurt   Russia   History  
  • So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?

    Race   Class   Notable  
  • A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

    Book   Eye   Eight  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.133, Seven Stories Press
  • Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

  • Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.

    Book   Battle   Diaries  
    "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.
  • When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

    Pride   Men   Blood  
    Charles Fletcher Dole (1897). “The Coming People”
  • Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

    Mean   Mind   Austin  
  • Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

    War   Years   Two  
    "Grass" l. 7 (1918)
  • The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

    Views   Bridges   London  
  • Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

  • As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.

    War   Law   Patents  
  • Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

    Destiny   Men   Lasts  
    Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.274
  • The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

    Usa   Mets   Waterloo  
    "Rush Goes On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Part One". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 23, 2009.
  • Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

    Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions
  • I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

    Military   War   Humorous  
  • If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.

    Beach   Marine   Battle  
  • On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across

    Goodbye   Song   Heart  
    Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.34, Faber & Faber
  • Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

    War   Battle   Eton  
    The Lion and the Unicorn pt. 1, sec. 4 (1941) SeeWellington 7
  • Our Government is fostering economic growth in Kitchener, Cambridge and all of the Waterloo Region by investing in our innovative businesses. Today's announcement is a great example of how we are helping high-potential companies bring great ideas to market faster. Helping our entrepreneurs and original thinkers export their products and services to the rest of the world creates jobs, growth and economic prosperity here at home.

    Jobs   Home   Ideas  
  • Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

    Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 4 Nov. 1831)
  • My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

  • Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

    Work   Body   Plant  
    "Grass" l. 1 (1918)
  • Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.

    Crazy   Iowa   Want  
    "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 27, 2011.
  • The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

    Battle   Eton   Fields  
    Attributed in N.Y. Times, 26 Dec. 1886. The earliest trace of this quotation was in Charles de Montalembert, De l'Avenir Politique de l'Angleterre (1856). Montalembert quoted Wellington, supposedly visiting his old school, in French: "C'est ici qu'a ete gagnee la bataille de Waterloo." In fact,Wellington was a notably unenthusiastic alumnus of Eton, and Elizabeth Longford, in Wellington: The Years of the Sword (1969), concludes that "probably he never said or thought anything of the kind." See O
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