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

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

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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

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

‚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.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

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.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

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.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

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?

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

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

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

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 object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

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.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

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

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.