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Josephus Daniels

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

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"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."

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

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"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

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"South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon."

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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."

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

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"I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide."

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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."

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"What we now have in Iraq is a defeat."

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"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."

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