“The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.”

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”

“He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”

“Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.”