Abraham Clark Quotes

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war.

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

We have only two alternatives: Bug Out [of the Vietnam War] or accelerate, and that we must escalate or the Presidency is lost.

this battle is going to decide the fate of all America and it is preferable to die on the field of honour than at the hands of our executioners.

Victory or defeat in interstate war depends on numerous factors, but what is ultimately decisive is the relative amount of economic resources at a government's disposal.

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be US Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.

A beaten general is disgraced forever

The basic fact is that we won and he lost.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

Victory in war depends on the morale of the masses which are shedding their blood on the battlefield.

Woe to the vanquished. Vae victis.

Do not survive to suffer the dishonor of capture.

With 450,000 U.S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of war exists with North Vietnam

I cannot consent to the bloody consequence of so silly a contest about so silly an object, conducted in the silliest manner … from which we are likely to derive nothing but poverty, disgrace, defeat, and ruin.