The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

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.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some read more

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

From what far, heavenly height of hope
Didst thou descend to light our way,
Cleaving with flash read more

From what far, heavenly height of hope
Didst thou descend to light our way,
Cleaving with flash of snowy robe
Time's dusky veil of twilight gray?

There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn

There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn

But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.

But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.

Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.

Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.

I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.

I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.