Defend Quotes
1167 quotes by 868 authors
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I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.
— Jonathan Winters
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
— Aristotle
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it…
— Bart Starr
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Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to…
— Sun Tzu
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Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans…
— George S. Patton
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Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that…
— Teresa of Avila
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Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using…
— Cesar Chavez
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
— Victor Hugo
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Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less…
— Max Beerbohm
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I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.
— Malcolm X
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Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
— Eric Hoffer
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Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral…
— George W. Bush
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The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the…
— Adolf Hitler
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Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
— William Shakespeare
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God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
— William Shakespeare
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We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills.…
— Winston Churchill
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There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.
— H. L. Mencken
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Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to…
— Ted Cruz
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I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and…
— Rand Paul
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