“If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.” IfsMeanFacesTermVictoryGuidesScandalInertia Author:Ron Fournier
“Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.” PeopleWorldGivingMeanLawOrderPolicyVictoryCivilizationCivilizedRighteousnessForeign PolicyExpansion Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.” MeanEndsStatesWholeMomentsWould BePoliticalEconomicRevolutionVictoryMassOrganizationWorkersDefeatParisAnarchyCapitalistOrganismsAdversariesAnarchismAnarchistSlaughterUpside DownProletariatCommunesThings Upside Down Author:Friedrich Engels
“The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.” IfsMeanHandsFightingEnemyVictoryConquerReally MeanLaurelsBayonets Author:Ferdinand Foch