Best Defenders Quotations
147 Defenders quotes by 129 unique authors
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I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish…
— Gunter Grass
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a…
— Primo Levi
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You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on…
— Criss Jami
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great…
— William Manchester
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The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we…
— Judy Blume
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I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.
— Lou Barletta
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The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
— Steve Buyer
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For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our…
— Virgil Goode
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Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
— Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims…
— Hari Kunzru
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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
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There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R.,…
— William Kristol
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Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities…
— Peter Singer
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America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
— George W. Bush
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I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of…
— Matt Gonzalez
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
— Dick Cavett
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The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast,…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders…
— Roger Williams
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In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national…
— Vladimir Lenin
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I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment…
— Paolo Maldini
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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do…
— John Grisham
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
— Calvin Coolidge
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