#defeat

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#defeat #economic #economic power #inexorably #militarily

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#after #armed #defeat #desperate #exile

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours. ↗

— David Letterman

#bad news #defeated #good #good news #hussein

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#bother #cancer #courageous #defeated #did

In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable. ↗

— Edward Marsh

#unbearable #unbeatable #victory

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

#defeat #important #knowledge #offers #personality

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#everything #learn #little #victory #you

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? ↗

— John McCain

#certain #cheer #cheering #date #defeat

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#defeat #down #falling #germany #her