Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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