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Quotes About Victory

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
~ Winston Churchill
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
~ John Green
Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...
~ Louis Pasteur
The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.
~ Hirohito
War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
~ George Meade
There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.
~ Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.
~ Giulio Douhet
If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.
~ Heinrich Muller
I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.
~ George S. Patton
If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.
~ Manfred von Richthofen
No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.
~ James Mattis
Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.
~ George VI
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
~ George C. Marshall
In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.
~ Giulio Douhet
You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.
~ Sun Tzu
If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.
~ Curtis LeMay
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
~ Sun Tzu
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.
~ Rinus Michels
nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. it's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
~ Charles Bukowski