Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I do not pilfer victory.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The U.S. military was segregated ‚til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‚Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?‘

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

There is no substitute for victory.

My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches in World War I. I truly believe that one of the E.U.’s greatest achievements is that it has kept its members out of conflict in Europe.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.