Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.
Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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 think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Perhaps the biggest boost to the LePenization of French politics came from Nicolas Sarkozy. As president of France between 2007 and 2012, he actively courted FN voters and helped dismantle the 'Republican pact,' under which the two main parties had pledged to work together to defeat the FN at a national and local level.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves.