Defend Quotes
1167 quotes by 868 authors
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The toughest opponents to defend are Iverson, Marbury and Payton. They are all very talented and can shoot at anytime from anywhere.
— Steve Nash
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Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
— Bill Shuster
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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in…
— Janet Morris
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You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if…
— Sun Tzu
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet…
— Therese of Lisieux
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When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them…
— Byron Dorgan
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
— Edmund Burke
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The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
— Charles I of England
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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black…
— Malcolm X
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The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy…
— Andrew Jackson
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Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right…
— Walter E. Williams
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
— Thomas A. Edison
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
— Vernon Howard
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The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for…
— Sigmund Freud
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