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The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun.

Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave, Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save; So peace instead of death let us bring; But yield, proud foe, let us bring; With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King.

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.

Victory is a thing of the will.

A Cadmean victory.

To the victors belong the spoils.

From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flash of snowy robe Time's dusky veil of twilight gray?

Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.

The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato.

You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it

They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.

Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Victory made Whose wings right o'er us hover!

Westminster Abbey, or Victory.

Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.