We retreated in time." "And we've been defeated.

Well, we can stand it.

It takes a good nation to stand big defeats.

You know I taught school once, Dick, and I learned that the biggest nation the world has ever known was the one that suffered the biggest defeats.

Look at the terrible knocks the Romans got! Why the Gauls nearly ate 'em alive two or three times, and for years Hannibal whipped 'em every time he could get at 'em.