effervescent

“Champagne! In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

rough rider

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, than to take rank with those poor, timid spirits who know neither victory or defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1899

mass grave of the Wehrmacht

"Not one step back."
- Stalin's Stalingrad directive

victory or death

"Comeback with your shield, or on it."
- Spartan mothers

through deceit and dishonesty

"All I wanted from from life was one more victory than defeat."
- Richard Nixon

"Defeat is advance payment for victory"
- Winston Churchill

"Thank God I have done my duty."

J.M.W. Turner's H.M.S. Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805.

Reputed to be Nelson's [1758-1805] final words.