“Hail the victorious dead!”

“For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.”

“No Victory Without Suffering”

“If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.”

“Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!”

“The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.”

“I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.”