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Victory
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
MANN, HORACE
They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
MARCY, WILLIAM LEARNED
Which if not victory is yet revenge.
MILTON, JOHN
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
St. Augustine
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who’ve no retreat.
John Gay
There’s an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
Abraham Lincoln
Violence
These violent delights have violent ends.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
The use of violence as an instrument of persuation is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
William O. Duglas
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Martin Luther King. Jr.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Virtue
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
BURKE, EDMUND
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
Virtue is the sole and only nobility.
JUVENAL
Virtue could see to do what virtue would
By her own radiant light, though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk.
MILTON, JOHN
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely.
MILTON, JOHN
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that imortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
MILTON, JOHN
Let them look on Virtue, and pine away because they have abandoned her.
PERSIUS
Voting
VOTE. The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce
To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan
In times of stress and strain, people will vote.
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