Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or nation:
“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)