| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1872 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) |
| QUOTATION: | There’s an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President JOHN F. KENNEDY, referring to the Bay of Pigs disaster, press conference, April 21, 1961.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 312. |
| SUBJECTS: | Victory |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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