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

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

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

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

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

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

Government, Country, Against

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

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

Accept, Force, Prepared

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

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

Trying, Far, Within

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, Made

I have to defend my husband.
Hillary Clinton

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

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

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

Freedom, Courage, Alone

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

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

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

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

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.
Jim Carrey

Angry, Trying, Old

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr

War, May, Against

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

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

Life, Friend, Poor

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

America, Security, Seek

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