For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way not to evade destiny as the ordinary people try to do but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history and Europe has helped write ours.

Love is never defeated and I could add the history of Ireland proves it.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

They were afraid never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.