Charles Sumner: “They are content to forego victory, if they can escape defeat, forgetting that Fabius was only a defender and not a…”

“They are content to forego victory, if they can escape defeat, forgetting that Fabius was only a defender and not a conqueror, that a policy fit at one time may be unfit at another, that a war waged in an enemy’s country cannot be defensive, nor can it prevail by any procrastination.”