Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1872
AUTHOR:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (191763)
QUOTATION:
Theres 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.