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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
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"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."

"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."

"Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers."
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"A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth."

"Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father."

"So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training."

"To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged."
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