Defenders Quote by Lord Acton Download Open image “There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.” — Lord Acton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defenders Errors Men
Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour… — Takeda Shingen Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with any defenders. I've always played against great defenders. — Diego Costa Copy Share Image
If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position... — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can ensure the safety of your defence… — Ralph D. Sawyer Copy Share Image
When you make a mistake, and the team is not doing well in defence, then the centre-backs and the 'keeper suffer more than the… — Rafael Benitez Copy Share Image
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State, - ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios, - burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the… — Lord Acton Copy Share
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that… — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world. — Romario Copy Share Image
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home, and freedom's defender. We welcome this charge of history, and we are keeping it. (Applause.) The war on terror continues. The enemies of freedom are not idle, and neither are we. This country will not rest, we will not… — George W. Bush Copy Share
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image