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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.
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
The worst of all outcomes is that the Sandinistas will defeat the democratic fighters, and consequently they would have it all their way.
The question the electorate asks is: 'What can you do for us? Are you just using us to defeat somebody because you have a personal grievance?'
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.
I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves.
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Only Boris Johnson will get the best Brexit deal for Britain, defeat Jeremy Corbyn's divisive shambles of an opposition, and govern the United Kingdom in the national interest.
The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.
A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.
The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Our armed forces have given many sacrifices to defeat terrorists and root out their hideouts. This fight will continue until all terrorists are defeated.
Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.
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.
I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.
This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.
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 defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
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.
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.
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.
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.
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.
I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
I'm not going to allow my trials to defeat me, I'm going to let them build me up and learn from them and take as much wisdom as I can from each trial.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
I've no doubt about the attitude of the players. Everything moves quickly in football; we coaches move on quickly from victory and defeat.
I am deeply concerned for the safety of our people brought by a lack of a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIL.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre of our plan, I will remain an outspoken advocate for that cause.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a 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.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
Each FBI employee understands that to defeat the key threats facing our nation, we must constantly strive to be more efficient and more effective. Just as our adversaries continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI.
It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.
I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.
In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
I went to Eton, that's a slightly controversial issue, but it's an interesting subject to try and come across as likable and self-aware and possibly even defeat a couple of stereotypes.
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
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.
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