Defend Quotes
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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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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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What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?
Amitav Ghosh
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Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.
Alvaro de Vasconcelos
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I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. As a fourth-degree black-belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and that's something that we should start to implement for a lot of women.
Nia Sanchez
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
John Locke Nazareth
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In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.
George Monbiot
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Primary and especially secondary education is extremely important in preventing trafficking, it allows children to develop critical thinking skills to be able to defend themselves from traffickers and to have the skills that will enable them to have gainful employment to be able to support their families in other ways than being sexually exploited.
Mira Sorvino
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.
Thomas Hobbes
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My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.
Saul Rubinek
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In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?
Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
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People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.
Norman Finkelstein
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Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.
Steven Seagal
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Bernard Berenson
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The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and American general press is to defend Israel.
Norman Podhoretz
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George Grant's writing is an invaluable asset to Americans in general, and to the pro-life Americans in particular. I am grateful for his leadership and courage to defend the sanctity of life, and to tell the truth at all costs.
Beverly LaHaye
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Every one of these claims embodies a metaphysical assumption, and science, since its very method presupposes them, could not possibly defend them without arguing in a circle. Their defense is instead a task for metaphysics, and for philosophy more generally; and scientism is shown thereby to be incoherent.
Edward Feser
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The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
Genghis Khan
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A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.
Antoine-Henri Jomini
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Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
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I think the best way to defend a result is to keep attacking.
Ander Herrera
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For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.
Ali Shariati
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I could tell right away before the first media timeout that we were ready to defend.
Brad Soderberg