Defend Quotes

1167 Defend quotes by 868 unique authors

I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my… — Kirk Gibson
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The… — Fred Hampton
Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them. — Lee H. Hamilton
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out… — Graham Joyce
Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to… — William Kristol
Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is… — Anjem Choudary
You don't leave people who can't defend themselves. — Tori Amos
We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to… — Vandana Shiva
What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief… — Austin Farrer
I know firsthand how alone you can feel when you’re being broken down in a relationship and forced to defend it or stay silent. Just… — Debby Ryan
Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of… — Charb
To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know. — Wendell Berry
If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player. — Jo Durie
A FRIEND IS A PERSON . . . With whom you can be sincere. . . . To whom you never need to defend yourself.… — Alfred Armand Montapert
All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon… — H. L. Mencken
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard… — Robert Breault
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,… — Charles Caleb Colton
My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to… — Thomas a Kempis
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men… — Thomas B. Macaulay
In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall… — Myriam Miedzian
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as… — Barbara Kingsolver
FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to… — Adela Popescu
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty? — Publilius Syrus
I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired. — Roger Nash Baldwin
To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy… — Dave Barry

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