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Quotes About Victory

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.
~ Sun Tzu
Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.
~ Sun Tzu
Wars are not won by evacuations.
~ Winston Churchill
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
~ Winston Churchill
In war, only the simple succeeds.
~ Paul von Hindenburg
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
~ Fabian Cancellara
A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.
~ Horatio Nelson
I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.
~ Joseph Stilwell
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
~ F. E. Adcock
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.
~ Jefferson Davis
As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
~ Max Hastings
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
~ Mao Zedong
Great battles are won with artillery.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.
~ Bernard Law Montgomery
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
~ Aristotle
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
~ Bill Ayers
This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
~ James Longstreet
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
~ Benito Mussolini
I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.
~ Bum Phillips
Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?
~ Adrian Carton de Wiart
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.
~ Manfred von Richthofen