Top Retreat Quotes
Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
James Longstreet
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
Andrzej Wajda
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson
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Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem 
88% of people like this quote
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
James Longstreet
63% of people like this quote
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
60% of people like this quote
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
Andrzej Wajda
59% of people like this quote
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson
58% of people like this quote
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
James Wolfe
57% of people like this quote
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin
57% of people like this quote
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
57% of people like this quote
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
Fiorello LaGuardia
57% of people like this quote
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Ferdinand Foch
57% of people like this quote
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Oscar WildeNapoleon BonaparteCharles DickensNapoleon HillFrancesca AnnisRandall TerryNorman Vincent PealeJohn BoehnerSylvester StalloneAndrzej WajdaMargaret MahyLee H. HamiltonMohammed Saeed al-SahafMary McCarthyJoseph Stalin
John OatesJet LiCharles OlsonJohn GayRoland BarthesWilliam WycherleyJames LongstreetPerry ComoJim BishopBenjamin JowettWilliam Lloyd GarrisonPhilip GibbsBill RichardsonPotter StewartHenry Villard
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