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Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.)
A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.)
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
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Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break agonized and clear.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
Victory is a thing of the will.
Victory is a thing of the will.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how read more
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.