Defeated Army Quotes

#1. Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation ...

Qurratulain Hyder

#2. The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later; the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later.

Sun Tzu

#3. If the French army was defeated, it was impossible to imagine that the English would survive.

Charles Kaiser

#4. It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

Vladimir Lenin

#5. Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

William Wordsworth

#6. One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists, of course. Muhammad's commandment to treat Jews and Christians as "People of The book" gave them legal protection.

Shlomo Sand

#7. How do I know you're not the killer?" MeShack asked.
A smirk plastered on Zulu's face. "Because you would've been the first victim.

Kenya Wright

#8. Reconciliation is a step beyond the domain of conflict resolution, which, as traditionally defined and practiced, is coming to be viewed as inadequate for creating true healing, harmony, and effective community in arenas where they has been long-standing conflict.

William Keepin

#9. Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

George Grosz

#10. Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.

Stephen Kinzer

#11. If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

Sakya Pandita

#12. When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this.

Thomas Perez

#13. One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

Tahir Shah

#14. The legion was raised by Mark Antony. He filled the ranks with men from Cleopatra's army. When Antony was defeated by Octavian, the Twenty-Second was integrated into the rest of the army and has been stationed on the Nile since then. They're a mix of Greeks and Egyptians from the Nile cities.

Simon Scarrow

#15. Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

Henry Ward Beecher

#16. The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the biggest pullout ever by an army not defeated in battle.'

Stephen Kinzer

#17. Flurries of snow obscured the view through the windows, but they were halfhearted and ultimately inconsequential, like the parting shots of a defeated army. Angel

John Connolly

#18. An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#19. Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.

Jennifer Lawrence

#20. Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,

Alexandre Dumas

#21. The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

Confucius

#22. History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

#23. They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

Ernest Hemingway,

#24. The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

Jubal Early

#25. Sure, why not?" she said. "You know, you read about a crime in the paper and you think how terrible for the victims, and then you turn the page and move on.

Tami Hoag

#26. If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

Sun Tzu

#28. The problem is that when you change Romeo and Juliet's story it ends up like that ridiculous Taylor Swift song. And that's not what people love about Romeo and Juliet.

Jolene Perry