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Quotes About Victory

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
~ Saint Augustine
Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
One makes war to win, not because it's just.
~ Michel Foucault
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
~ Sun Tzu
Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.
~ Sun Tzu
This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)
~ Marv Levy
What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
~ Horatio Nelson
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!
~ Philip Sheridan
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.
~ Ronald Reagan
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
~ Sun Tzu
After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.
~ Sam Manekshaw
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
~ William Hazlitt
Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.
~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
~ Sun Tzu
Once you start a war, you have to win.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
~ Moliere
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
~ Sun Tzu
He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.
~ Sun Tzu
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
~ George S. Patton
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
~ George Bernard Shaw
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.
~ Ronald Reagan
In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.
~ Sun Tzu
We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower