Quotes About Victory

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

... a war always ends.

I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

There are no unwinnable wars.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

A man's idee in a card game is war

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it.