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“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

24 posted on 02/02/2020 12:32:06 PM PST by Redcitizen ("There's no replacement for shot placement" - Paul Harrell)

To: Redcitizen

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Actually, it’s from Tacitus, but he never had the Kennedy family’s PR machine...

JFK probably heard it from one of Mussolini’s diplomats.

We ought to maintain a list of misattributed quotes that are popular with the Left lol.

36 posted on 02/02/2020 5:35:09 PM PST by Nabron

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