Defending Quotes

305 Defending quotes by 265 unique authors

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get. — Dana Plato
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. — Ronald Reagan
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers. — Pat Robertson
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. — Salman Rushdie
Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? — Rick Santorum
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. — Gertrude Stein
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is… — John Thune
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves… — Alice Walker
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist… — J C Watts
I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too… — Vivienne Westwood
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender… — Frans de Waal
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied… — Edward de Bono
I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have… — Isaac Asimov
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws… — H. L. Mencken
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights… — George Washington
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and… — David O. McKay
He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days… — Chelsea Handler
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery… — R A Salvatore
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… — Samuel Adams
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. — Eckhart Tolle
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to… — James Madison
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. — Lewis Mumford

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