#defeat

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#defeat #defiance #falsehood #force #fraud

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. ↗

— Robert Trout

#british empire #british press #defeats #empire #forgets

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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What we now have in Iraq is a defeat. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#iraq #now

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#finished #man #quits

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ↗