Statement to Major Heros von Borcke http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=1082 (13 December 1862), as quoted in Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence (1867) by Heros von Borcke, p. 301; this has been paraphrased as "My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!"
“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.”
Letter to Mary Gladstone (1881)
Context: There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.
Speech 11/19/2003 Whitehall Palace, London http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040126-6.html
2000s, 2003
“Leaders stand up for their men. They encourage them to try and defend them when they fail.”
Said on Twitter https://twitter.com/TomTugendhat/status/1148919771741741062 about the failiure of Boris Johnson to defend Kim Darroch after a diplomatic cable leak. Quoted by the BBC: Sir Kim Darroch: UK ambassador to US resigns in Trump leaks row https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48937120 (10 July 2019) on the BBC website. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), The Grey King (1975), Chapter 6 “Bird Rock” (pp. 71-72)
“Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.”
Doctorate Award Speech, Kean University (2004)
“Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.”
As quoted in Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 73
