Battle Quote by Mark Lawrence

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

— Donald Trump

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

— David Millar

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How can one call that a defeat? There is no such thing.

— Walter Russell

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a…

— John Boyd Orr

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

— Ludwig von Mises

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

— Albert Pike

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.

— Richard A. Knaak

For Germany, the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary. The loss of…

— Werner Heisenberg

Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then you have…

— Karl Marlantes

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull