Quotes About Victory

O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

we train for war and fight to win.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Peace is obtained by war.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation's great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.