Win The War Quotes

#1. Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

#2. The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

George W. Bush

#3. Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.

Benjamin Carson

#4. Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don't do it to win anymore; we do it because it's what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It's our battle rhythm.

Angela Ricketts

#5. We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.

Neil Sheehan

#6. These are the only moments that we have left. These precious seconds where the passion blots out everything else, and it is just us.
The rest is a war neither of us can ever win.
But, I already waved my white flag.
I have already surrendered.

Amanda Grace

#7. If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

Muhammad Ali

#8. The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

Jimmy Doolittle

#9. Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

Sun Tzu

#10. A similar statement appears in the US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945): The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

George C. Marshall

#11. Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Toba Beta

#12. At some point, I realized the horrible truth - the United States and its allies could win every single battle in Afghanistan and blow up every single alleged top militant in Pakistan, but still lose this war.

Kim Barker

#13. In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14. They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Howard Zinn

#15. Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

Sarah Kay

#16. Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

Kiersten White

#17. 'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.

Adrian McKinty

#18. Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

Bernard Brodie

#19. I am capable of choosing my battles, if that's what it takes to win the war.

Marissa Meyer

#20. In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.

Shatrujeet Nath

#21. Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.

Bernard Cornwell

#22. In the wake of winning the war, Poland wants to help win peace with Iraq. I believe that the international community cannot leave Iraq without support.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

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

Donald Trump

#24. Markov's not important,' she said. 'I'm not important. You're not important. Winning the war, that's the only important thing.'
'No,' I said, 'I disagree. Markov was important. So am I and so are you. That's why we have to win.

David Benioff

#25. 12
Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

Robert Greene

#26. It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Aristotle.

#27. I won the battles, Justin. And I won the war. And now there is no more fighting. Now there is peace. You told me to let the joy win out, and I am choosing to do that.

Jessica Park

#28. I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

Bill Vaughan

#29. And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#30. Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.

Tom Peters

#31. War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

Libba Bray

#32. But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that burns and we'll never be much more than only casualties of war in a struggle we can't win if we have no faith to begin. We've got to tip the lid and let some sunlight in.

Dawud Wharnsby Ali

#33. Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.

Mao Zedong

#34. The Civil War won formal rights for Negroes, but failed to win social justice and factual democracy. The actual result has been segregation, and fear and ignorance for both whites and blacks.

Paul Goodman

#35. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

Ernest Hemingway,

#36. Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is literature that always wins the war.

Helon Habila

#37. The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be translated into faith down to the youngest private soldier.

Erich Von Manstein

#38. Soon after, Tom, all of twenty years old, became the only soldier in the Civil War to win two Medals of Honor. In

Nathaniel Philbrick

#39. We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.

Ken Mehlman

#40. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#41. I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Kurt Schrader

#42. A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.

Philip Gourevitch

#43. The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

Sun Tzu

#44. It occurred to me, even in that moment: you can win the battle and still lose the war.

Chris Cole

#45. The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

John T. Flynn

#46. The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

Winston Churchill

#47. We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Golda Meir

#48. The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

Brad Thor

#49. Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in the win or loss column. Lives will be lost. Eternities will be shaped. Destinies will either be discovered or dismissed. Dreams will be attained or relinquished.

Tony Evans

#50. When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle.

Debasish Mridha

#51. The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

Markus Zusak

#52. Pick your fights," Makin said. "I'll pick my ground," I said. "I'll pick my ground, but I'm not running. Not ever. That's been done, and we still have the war. I'm going to win it, Brother Makin, it's going to end with me." He

Mark Lawrence

#53. I will attack no matter what and win the war!

Robert E.Lee

#54. We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#55. In 2008, I was one of millions united for hope and change. As 2010 dawns, change looks to me like more of the same. Instead of peace, we got more war. Instead of health care reform, we have an industry win that requires Americans to buy health insurance without any real cost controls.

Jodie Evans

#56. The war against terrorism is one we must win.

Lisa Murkowski

#57. In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

Pierre Laval

#58. The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

Denis Johnson

#59. To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war,

Benjamin Netanyahu

#60. The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.

Carol Moseley Braun

#61. In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#62. A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#63. To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

Sarah Palin

#64. The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

George W. Bush

#65. War rages on the teeming earth;
The hot and sanguinary fight
Begins with each new creature's birth:
A dreadful war where might is right;
Where still the strongest slay and win,
Where weakness is the only sin.

Mathilde Blind

#66. It was probably not an appropriate term, but we support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win.

Stephen Harper

#67. If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

#68. ) To win the war is to control the milieu.(

Anonymous

#69. While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

Ronald Reagan

#70. The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.

Debasish Mridha

#71. I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

Marco Rubio

#72. The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

Sylvester Stallone

#73. I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.

Lindsey Graham

#74. Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#75. Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#76. The Soviet Knight is dying inside his armour. He is a secondary power like you British. He can start a war but cannot continue one and cannot win one. Believe me.

John Le Carre

#77. You remind me of my late sister, little one. As I once told her, the headstrong may win many battles ... but only the strong of heart will survive the war.

Brian K. Vaughan

#78. There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

Earl Nightingale

#79. Bottom line is, you're not going to win the war against terrorism without the help of Muslims ... as well as Hindus and a lot of other groups. That's a no-brainer. Many attacks have been thwarted because of information coming from people of different faiths.

Andre Carson

#80. Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#81. Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.

Shannon L. Alder

#82. All right, Adam", I say. "You're gonna help me win this war.

Pittacus Lore

#83. You cannot win a war outside until you have won the war that you are fighting inside you first.

Akshay Vasu

#84. I want to fight and win the war on cancer.

Jason Chaffetz

#85. Ridiculous! Why don't you go into gunrunning, and sell the ancient Athenians a couple of machine guns so they can win the Peloponnesian War?

Kurt Vonnegut

#86. Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

Homer

#87. The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'

Dylan Ratigan

#88. We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

Norman Mailer

#89. I invite all to trust in the merits and in the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning sacrifice, we can gain the courage to win all the wars of our time, even in the midst of our difficulties, challenges, and temptations. Let us trust in His # love and power to save.

Ulisses Soares

#90. I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

Martin Sheen

#91. All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

Richard Shelby

#92. Once, my enemies were those I could see
Now the devil lies deep within me
But angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sin
This war is mine, and mine alone, to win.

Sarah Brownlee

#93. Play for the day," he told himself. "Win the day, each day, and so you will win the war.

R.A. Salvatore

#94. I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.

David Gemmell

#95. The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#96. The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#97. We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.

Margaret Thatcher

#98. The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

Robert A. Heinlein

#99. The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities ... It is best to win without fighting.

Sun Tzu

#100. The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

George C. Marshall