Battle

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My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.

Ferdinand Foch

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Foch, Ferdinand. Message sent during the first Battle of the Marne. 8 Sept. 1914.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 18.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Suetonius

Said by gladiators saluting the Roman Emperor prior to combat.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laƫrtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 50.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laƫrtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 50.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Quoted in Six Crises, written by Richard Nixon. Doubleday, 1962.

Give brief orders; speeches that are too long are likely to be forgotten.

Abu Bakr

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Bakr, Abu. Quoted in "Sayings of Abu Bakir." Examining Religions: Islam, written by Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood. Heinemann Educational, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry V. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Curtain, Shoreditch, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Fifth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.