Democracy must learn to defend itself.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Bryant H. McGill

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Frederic Bastiat

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
Jacques Verges

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.
Janet Reno

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Charley Pride

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
Milos Forman

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
Boris Spassky

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.
Russell Crowe

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

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Ovid

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

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

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
Tanith Lee

I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country.
John Sevier