Defend Quotes

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill

Fight, May, Whatever

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
Robin Hayes

Life, Women, Great

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trying, Problem, Far

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams

Freedom, Country, Against

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Tecumseh

Heart, Country, Liberty

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

Government, Country, Against

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Sun Tzu

General, Whose, Attack

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams

Life, Best, Together

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas Sowell

Accept, Force, Prepared

I have to defend my husband.
Hillary Clinton

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Liberty, Conscience

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.
Ron Paul

Home, Whole, Idea

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trying, Far, Within

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles

Freedom, Courage, Alone

While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
Randy Neugebauer

Forget, Country, Year

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Sigmund Freud

Young, Away, Her

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Nothing, Short

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Dwight L. Moody

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
Hubert H. Humphrey

May, Democracy, Enough

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford

Important, Put, Security

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow

Home, Freedom, Cannot

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Nature, Living

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster

Love, God, Liberty

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Alan Watts

Parents, Born, Principles

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
George W. Bush

America, Security, Seek

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Diane Abbott

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin

Peace, Government, Death

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron

Life, Friend, Poor

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