#victor

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#because #brought #cause #did #extent

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#aim #all-out #attack #campaign #coalition

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#about #back #book #california #class

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#capital #concrete #even #guarantee #his

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again. ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #battle #environmental #environmental movement #every

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#books #commissioned #kind #life #margaret

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#car #claim #even #finishing #going

Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror. ↗

— Andrew Card

#because #help #important #important aspect #iraq

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#covered #despised #dupe #find #fool

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ↗

— Galeazzo Ciano

#fathers #hundred #orphan #victory