William Jennings Bryan Quotes
No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.William Jennings Bryan
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
Barack Obama -
I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
Cameron van der Burgh -
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies -
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill -
The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.
Viktor Yanukovych
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I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Otto Hermann Kahn -
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Karl Kraus -
Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
Bai Ling -
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself.
Yana Kudryavtseva
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I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.
Patrick M. Byrne -
The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
Damon Runyon -
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust -
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Karel Capek -
An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).
Ferdinand Foch -
Such a stupid act. Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of unshowy soldiering that didn’t win medals but wars.
Iain Banks
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The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.
Hannah Arendt -
Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley -
Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.
Jimmy Buffett -
For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.
Richard Wright Pink Floyd -
No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
William Jennings Bryan