Quotes on Victors

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.

Even victors are by victories undone.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.