Quotes About Victory

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory.

American and British business interests were to make a great contribution to the final nationalist victory, either through active assistance, such as that given by the oil magnate Henry Deterding, or through boycotting the Republic, disrupting its trade with legal action and delaying credits in the banking system.

Eden was hardly an impartial observer of the conflict. He is supposed to have told the French foreign minister, Delbos, that England preferred a rebel victory to a republican victory. He professed an admiration for the self-proclaimed fascist Calvo Sotelo, who had been murdered.

Alliances are complicated enough in victory, but in defeat they are bound to produce the worst recriminations imaginable.

On 18 January, determined to repair fences, Churchill made a speech in the House of Commons to emphasize that 'the United States troops have done almost all the fighting and have suffered almost all the losses . . . Care must be taken in telling our proud tale not to claim for the British Army an undue share of what is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever famous American victory.

In 1970, the Kremlin finally decided to dispose of the body in absolute secrecy. The funeral rites of the Third Reich's leader were indeed macabre. Hitler's jaws, kept so carefully in the red box by Rzhevskaya during the victory celebrations in Berlin, had been retained by SMERSH, while the NKVD kept the cranium.

Torgau on the Elbe, leading elements of Major General Vladimir Rusakov's 58th Guards Rifle Division met up with US soldiers from the 69th Division.

Never be worth a damn till you do meet trouble and lick it.

At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete.

desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self

Arnold A. Dallimore

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

For relaxation he could always engage Hal in a large number of semimathematical games, including checkers, chess, and polyominoes. If Hal went all out, he could win any one of them; but that would be bad for morale. So he had been programmed to win only fifty percent of the time, and his human partners pretended not to know this.

The billion-year battle against the force of gravity was over.

You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

The vegetable kingdom still remains one of the few which Napoleon has not yet conquered.

If they are too many for us, we shall take two or three of them with us.

What, my friends, is the conquest of one nation by another? It is meaningless. Each produces the same result. But those fierce fights, when in the dawn of the ages the cave-dwellers held their own against the tier folk, or the elephants first found that they had a master, those were the real conquests - the victories that count.

my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships

How they look? Bathymaas Not bad. They might actually survive a few battles. Caleb

Life is ever a complicated symphony of catastrophes. Ever seeking to lay us low and lift us higher.

Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last, laughs longest and I intend to belly roll tonight.