Ashes Defeat

Famous quotes containing the words ashes and/or defeat:

““To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods,”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

“Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
—Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944)