Defended Quotes

180 Defended quotes by 162 unique authors

All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered… — Paulo Coelho
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended. — Jim Rohn
Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and… — Unknown Author
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought… — Ronald Reagan
It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting… — Mark Twain
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land,… — Ida Tarbell
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against… — Ian Frazier
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from… — Noam Chomsky
Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against… — Ben Shapiro
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under… — Rebecca MacKinnon
The truth does not need to be defended. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
In the past, NASDAQ has defended flash orders. — Charles Duhigg
I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against… — Paul Haggis
If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities. — Eric Holder
A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in… — Oliver Ellsworth
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. — James H. Douglas, Jr.
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently… — Georg Cantor
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. — Ernst Toller
For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did. — Jan Hus

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