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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Oct 1, 2025
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.
Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
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.
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.
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
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 yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
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.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Never, never, 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. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
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.
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 have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
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.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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