The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone.” — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited . . . What is essential in war is… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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