Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
It's very important to follow up after the defeat of Daesh militarily. It's not in our interests, nor in the interests of other countries in the region, for them to regroup again.
Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
As fighters, the stark reality is, there's times in that cage when we want out. There's times when we've had enough and we want out, and we're able to recognize defeat.
To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.