- Nov 07, 2020
Victory Quotes
Lines on triumph, unity and staying grounded.
The strongest line in this set argues that a democracy should never let arrogance follow a win, nor let despondency follow a loss, a balance that shows up again and again across these quotes. Another describes soldiers and civilians as one family whose unity is what makes triumph possible.
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- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won at Hockenheim in 2000 and I guess we always make the first victory the most special one.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
- Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.
- Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.
- Grinding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot sit here and say I was beaten by Carol Miller. Because Carol Miller did not show up. She did not debate me. She basically avoided everything and just said, 'I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump.' And sadly, that's apparently a victory here in a place like southern West Virginia.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
- Condemn
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- Nov 07, 2020