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.

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.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.)

A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.)

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

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

The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.

The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.

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.

Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or
Westminister Abbey.

Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or
Westminister Abbey.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.