Quotes About Victory

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

All wars will be settled by sea power.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

It's alright if you lose a few battles, but as long as you win the war, that's all that matters.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Conquer or be conquered.