A Tradition of Victory, Cap 14 "The Toast is Victory!"
Context: ‘ I am telling you you must not care, sir. The three men died, but they helped to give us a small advance knowledge which we may use against the enemy. At the conference tomorrow they would all answer the same. A few lives to save the many is any captain's rule.’
"The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud"
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
1961, Inaugural Address
Variant: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Context: To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required — not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
“I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.”
On calling an end to the sacking of Athens, after a plea on its behalf by two Athenians loyal to Rome, as quoted in The Story of Rome : From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus (1900) by Mary Macgregor; also said to be in a translation of Plutarch's works.
"Je réussirai!"
Le mot du joueur, du grand capitaine, mot fataliste qui perd plus d'hommes qu'il n'en sauve.
Part I.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Book 3: "Ocean Continents"
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
"The War Speeches of William Pitt", Oxford University Press, 1915, p. 351
Speech at the Guildhall, City of London, 9 November 1805. This was Pitt's last speech in public.
Extracted from Proverbs Blog https://providencepath.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/jung-myung-seok-saving-your-spirit/
