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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
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Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
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If defeat comes from moral causes, victory may come from moral causes also, and one may say: 'A battle won is a battle we will not acknowledge to be lost.'
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The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
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Born:
October 2, 1851
Died:
March 20, 1929
(aged 77)
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