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A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.)
A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.)
Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, read more
The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
Westminster Abbey, or Victory.
Westminster Abbey, or Victory.
The best policy is to declare victory and leave.
The best policy is to declare victory and leave.
Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations
would not wish to disturb it . read more
Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations
would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the
German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not
in the might of their armies.
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.
