Defend Quotes
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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
Ehud Olmert
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don’t defend myself. I let them talk and limit myself to doing music with conviction.
Silvestre Dangond
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I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
Michael Parenti
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I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
Elia Kazan
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It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.
Pythagoras
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... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.
Eric Greitens
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We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.
Ahmad Shah Massoud
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I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.
Hillary Clinton
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The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.
Benigno Aquino III
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I learned how to defend the ball with my body and to be faster than my opponents.
Paulo Dybala
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I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.
Catherine the Great
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To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism.
Eboo Patel
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Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
Thomas Hobbes
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I want my country to be independent, always independent. I have to defend my convictions as a patriot and as a national leader. I have done my best, but as a human being I cannot be perfect, nobody is perfect.
Norodom Sihanouk
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I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
Toussaint Louverture
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There won't remain a single Jew that we will need to defend beyond the fence.
Ehud Olmert
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
Thomas A. Edison
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A lot of the routes cornerbacks have to defend are quick underneath routes, so it's tougher to get a chance to track the ball on those.
Antonio Cromartie
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Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.
Sigmund Freud