Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself