„Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.“
— George Marshall US military leader, Army Chief of Staff 1880 - 1959
As quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson
„Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war.“
— Gerry Spence, Context: Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war. Because the enemy is not human. This is a war against a malicious spirit. Only fools attempt to defeat a spirit with guns and rockets and bombs.
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„Good plain soldiering wins wars. Doing mundane things well is what counts.“
— Bernard Cornwell British writer 1944
Colonel Sir Barnaby Moon, p. 11
„Can the Army win the war before the Navy loses it?“
— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher Royal Navy admiral of the fleet 1841 - 1920
The World Crisis, Vol 3, 1916-1918, Part I (1927), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 283.
„Popular forces can win a war against an army.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928 - 1967
„The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.“
— George Marshall US military leader, Army Chief of Staff 1880 - 1959
Various sources below attribute this statement or similar ones to Marshall
But a war to prevent a third world war would be the Third World War, and Marshall had reached the conclusion that, "The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it."
As quoted in This is Our World (1956) by Louis Fisher, p. 91
Marshall's motto read: "The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it." It was 1947.
As quoted in The Story of Indonesia (1959) by Louis Fisher, p. 111 http://books.google.de/books?id=AkIeAAAAMAAJ&q=motto+read
Frances Perkins recalled his saying, "The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it."
As quoted in Freedom's Advocate: a twenty-five year chronicle (1965) by Aaron Levenstein, p. 104 http://books.google.de/books?id=plZIAQAAIAAJ&q=perkins
“Its purpose is to avoid war, not to provoke it,” he explained to his goddaughter, Rose Page Wilson. The deterrence factor was vital. “The only way to be sure of winning a third world war is to prevent it,” Marshall warned.
As quoted in General of the Army. George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman by Ed Cray (1990) p. 645 http://books.google.de/books?id=bGgcYteOQxUC&pg=PA645
Unsourced variant: The only way to win a war is to prevent it.
A very similar statement appears in the US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945), p. 41 http://books.google.de/books?id=mnChmcVKoVsC&pg=PA41&dq=lesson:
:: The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
„Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.“
— Sun Tzu ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty -543 - 251 a.C.
是故勝兵先勝而後求戰，敗兵先戰而後求勝。
Variant: Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
„Food will win the war.“
— Herbert Hoover 31st President of the United States of America 1874 - 1964
Slogan unveiled by then-food administrator Hoover on 29 September 1917, reported in the NY Times 1 October 1917, p. 15.
„To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace.“
— Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethiopia 1892 - 1975
Context: May it be taken as Divine significance, that, as We mark the passing of the Nazi Reich, in America at San Francisco, delegates from all United Nations, among whose number Ethiopia stands, are now met together for their long-planned conference to lay foundations for an international pact to banish war and to maintain World Peace. Our Churches pray for the successful triumph of this conference. Without success in this, the Victory, We celebrate today, the suffering that We have all endured will be of no avail.
To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace. The cause of War must be removed. Each Nation's rights must be secure from violation. Above all, from the human mind must be erased all thoughts of War as a solution. Then and then only will War cease.
V. E. Day proclamation (8 May 1945) http://www.jah-rastafari.com/selassie-words/show-jah-word.asp?word_id=declar_ve.
„It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -322 a.C.
„In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.“
— John McPhee American writer 1931
The Control of Nature (1989)
„We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.“
— Condoleezza Rice American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist 1954
opening statement to 9/11 Commission http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/rice.transcript/, May 19, 2004.
„No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt
„Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.“
— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965
In The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952) Chapter 12 (Island Prizes Lost).
