...call itself the victor, there are no winners but all are losers. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON To win, we must have leaders and commanders with fire in their...

...total war. That Eisenhower felt dispirited simply affirmed Wellington's maxim that "nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." To Marshall, he wrote: "I realize that the seeds of discord between ourselves and our British allies...

...though, it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year. — Young. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. — Duke of Wellington. Search for truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication a duty....

...knew from experience whereof he spoke, depreciated victory with the bitter opinion: "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." It is unnecessary to remind this audience that in our Civil War generals were not considered sacrosanct...

...is it? The best way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. • Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. — Wellington. The sunny walks of life lead much farther than the stormy paths. F'aradise regained...

...and glittering medals and reflected war's grimmer side; he painted the man who wrote, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." Wellington gave the portrait to his sister-in-law, the marchioness Wellesley, who left it to her sister,...