Quotes on War Victory

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.