William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim Quotes

Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

We have won this war. We have chased out the terrorists.

By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011.

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.

What our enemies have begun, we will finish.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Victory means exit strategy. And it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war.

Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.

Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.