We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
William Lloyd Garrison

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty.
Michael Bloomberg

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
Cao Cao

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
Norm MacDonald

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
Rose Wilder Lane