What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

—Wendell Phillips

About Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, labor reformer, temperance activist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.

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Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

—Wendell Phillips

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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

—Ralph W. Sockman

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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