Defend Quotes

1167 Defend quotes by 868 unique authors

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend… — Steve Buyer
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they… — Ferdinand Mount
Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard,… — Barry McCaffrey
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of… — Robertson Davies
If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you… — Robert Hughes
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels.… — Patrick Marber
To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always… — Mary Astell
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage. — J. E. B. Stuart
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion. — C.S. Lewis
You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally.… — Heinrich Himmler
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification — Michel de Montaigne
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. — Sallust
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought.… — Queen Noor of Jordan
If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth. — Billy Bragg
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they… — John Henry Newman
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a… — Frederick The Great
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer. You lose, you… — Lubomir Kavalek
We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we… — Ahmad Shah Massoud

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