Defeat

Famous quotes containing the word defeat:

“History by apprising them [students] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

“Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
—Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944)