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Defend me, God, from myself -- Spanish Proverb
Defend my honor - Protect my pride -- Nicki Minaj
Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Defend yourselves! If people don't defend their rights, they lose them. -- Max Mosley
Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city. -- Adolf Hitler
Bring forth what is true; Write it so it it's clear. Defend it to your last breath. -- Ludwig Boltzmann
Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself. -- Charles Spurgeon
Defend the truth with all you might so that the people of the future do not learn a lie. -- Auliq Ice
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues. -- Thomas Jefferson
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them. -- Rick Santorum
Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar. -- Charles Spurgeon
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Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you. -- Pope Francis
We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech. -- Patrick Chappatte
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. -- Edward R. Murrow
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. -- Marilyn vos Savant
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. -- Rand Paul
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
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. -- Salman Rushdie
There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more. -- Sean Young
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
The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear. -- Vikas Swarup
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
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
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
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
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
But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. -- King Albert II
Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness. -- Margaret Cho
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
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible. -- Steve Stockman
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
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
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist? -- Noam Chomsky
I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement. -- Peter Singer
When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end. -- Gareth Bale
Always attack, Never defend. -- Paul Begala
You create what you defend against. -- Gautama Buddha
I defend myself by improving myself. -- Sidney Poitier
Democracy must learn to defend itself. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
God wants someone to defend him. -- Shane Harper
I have to defend my husband. -- Hillary Clinton
I will fight to defend liberty. -- Ted Cruz
May God defend me from myself. -- Michel de Montaigne
Angels and ministers of grace defend us. -- William Shakespeare
Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A person creates what they defend against. -- Gautama Buddha
Wherever the truth is injured, defend it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever we defend democracy we find oil. -- Peter Gabriel
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself. -- Victor Hugo
Our job here is to defend freedom. -- Viet D. Dinh
How to defend yourself against a banana -- John Cleese
I'll always defend the people I Love. -- Niall Horan
We have to defend America and be strong. -- Kevin McCarthy
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing. -- Frederick the Great
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself. -- George W. Bush
May God defend, protect, provide and redeem you. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. -- George W. Bush
Actually, I defend the right to free abortion. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
You don't leave people who can't defend themselves. -- Tori Amos
Let's defend overtime and go after wage theft. -- Hillary Clinton
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. -- Oliver Goldsmith
I did not have a reputation to defend. -- Roman Polanski
If I don't defend for myself, who will? -- Wesley T. Calaway
I will defend the peso like a dog! -- Jose Lopez
You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it. -- Joe Torre
You always have to defend the imagination against idiots. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. -- Charles Reade
I was too weak to defend, so I attacked -- Robert E. Lee
When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
How can I defend myself against what I want? -- Henri Cole
You have to defend your honor. And your family. -- Suzanne Vega
It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill -- Franz Kafka
The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination. -- Marty Rubin
No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself. -- Vladimir Lenin
A true patriot will defend his country from its government. -- Thomas Jefferson
The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become. -- Mitch Albom
Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises. -- Karl Liebknecht
When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend. -- Rory Delap
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. -- Yann Martel
Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In order to survive, the human race must defend itself. -- Erica Brown
You do not defend a world that is already lost. -- Garet Garrett
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. -- Ruth McKenney
Adrian Peterson is redefining the way teams defend the running ability. -- Emmitt Smith
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for. -- I. M. Pei
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. -- Edmund Burke
People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by. -- Allen Drury
With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it -- Michael Reagan
The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances. -- Leon Panetta
The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else. -- G. Edward Griffin
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. -- Iris Murdoch
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. -- Ovid
I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any. -- Rachel Caine
Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them. -- Lee H. Hamilton
People are motivated to vote early, to defend core American values. -- Hillary Clinton
It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. -- Warren Farrell
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future. -- Seth Godin
In times of trouble, wait for the Lord to defend you. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it. -- Thomas Watson
The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work. -- Tommy Douglas
You will never be able to defend your city while shouting. -- Audre Lorde
The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box. -- Jock Stein
Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy! -- William Shakespeare
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. -- Ovid
It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves. -- Barack Obama
For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly. -- Ali Shariati
I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country. -- Ted Cruz
One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense. -- Henry James
When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens. -- John Stuart Mill
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear. -- Ovid
My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me. -- Michael Jackson
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. -- J. K. Rowling
The Palestinians cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves -- Joan Rivers
America has defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend its own. -- Donald Trump
To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive. -- William Zinsser

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