Winston Churchill Quotes About Victory
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History is written by the victors.
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Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.
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As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
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Victory is only wrested by running risks.
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You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
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You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.
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Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
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The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.
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In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.
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The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.
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Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
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If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
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You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
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Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
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Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
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He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.
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There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.
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Without victory there is no survival!
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Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.
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Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.
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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.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.
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I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.
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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.
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The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
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Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
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Winston Churchill
- Born: November 30, 1874
- Died: January 24, 1965
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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