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The truth does not need to be defended. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior. -- Vinoba Bhave
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. -- George W. Bush
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. -- George S. Patton
For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did. -- Jan Hus
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. -- Henri Nouwen
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend. -- Usain Bolt
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. -- Irving Babbitt
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. -- Althea Gibson
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. -- Solomon Ortiz
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! -- Philip Gibbs
Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government? -- Hugo Chavez
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. -- C. S. Lewis
The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away. -- Bill Dedman
I started the 1998 World Cup with Teddy Sheringham up front but always planned for Michael Owen to face Colombia in our final group game because they defended square and a quick striker would be able to exploit the space behind them. -- Glenn Hoddle
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
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. -- Eldridge Cleaver
I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone. -- Judge Mills Lane
No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate. -- Julian Baggini
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic. -- Gerry Adams
We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford. -- Carolyn Maloney
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. -- Noam Chomsky
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women. -- Michelle Yeoh
Honor does not have to be defended. -- Robert J. Sawyer
Even God has been defended with nonsense. -- Walter Lippmann
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing. -- Frederick the Great
You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God. -- Megyn Kelly
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. -- Livy
Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence. -- Mark Poster
Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory. -- Vicente Fox
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box. -- Ambrose Bierce
America has defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend its own. -- Donald Trump
We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively. -- LeBron James
Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States? -- Michael Farris
The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended, -- Benjamin Netanyahu
I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down. -- Faith Hill
There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended. -- Don DeLillo
Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared. -- Henri Nouwen
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. -- Samuel Adams
I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived. -- Vernon Howard
But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests. -- Kathleen Parker
That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. -- Israel Shahak
I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president. -- John F. Kerry
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself. -- John Pierrakos
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. -- Solon
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. -- Gamal Abdel Nasser
Just because he has black fingernails doesn't mean he's a monster-that's how you've defended yourself for years. -- Ellen Schreiber
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. -- Ernst Toller
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended. -- Jim Rohn
It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times. -- Pope John Paul II
I've defended my title for eight years, let's see if Ricky (Hatton) is still champion in four years. -- Joe Calzaghe
America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States. -- Rudy Giuliani
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended. -- Chaim Weizmann
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance. -- James Surowiecki
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. -- Paulo Freire
Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free -- Aung San Suu Kyi
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines. -- Paul Tillich
It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. -- George Bernard Shaw
I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live. -- Leyla Zana
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. -- Frederic Bastiat
How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects? -- Richard Aldington
Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish. -- Manuel Valls
If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities. -- Eric Holder
President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.' -- Amy Poehler
May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings. -- Billy Graham
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate. -- Edward de Bono
Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients. -- Alan Dershowitz
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil. -- R. C. Sproul
The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage. -- Charles Spurgeon
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history. -- John Shelby Spong
I don't care that no one has successfully defended the (light heavyweight) title. I care about preparation, training and getting inside the cage to fight. -- Rafael Cavalcante
The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended. -- Kurt Hahn
There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Let's put it this way: I am confident that Schengen will continue to be defended. And when it comes to repatriations, we have the same opinion. -- Paolo Gentiloni
I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his whole attack. -- Stefan Heym
In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons. -- Andrei Sakharov
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them. -- Ian Frazier
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin. -- Gerry Adams
Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel. -- Scott Hahn
A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. -- Henry Miller
Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity. -- Pope Francis
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property. -- Winston Churchill
A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders. -- Michael Ignatieff
Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless. -- Ben Shapiro
I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity. -- Julie Anne Peters
We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists. -- Winona LaDuke
We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this. -- Lorik Cana
Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew. -- Heinz Galinski
Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort. -- Ludwig von Mises
Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it. -- William Chillingworth
In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine. -- Manly Hall
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral. -- Alexander Hamilton
Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and...in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers. -- Gregory of Nyssa
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. -- Georg Cantor
I think Assange has been very courageous. I've also defended Bradley Manning. I think they've been tremendously courageous in telling the truth, and the public has the right to the truth. -- Mairead Corrigan
It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Goals are easily scored with either a skillful strike or a strong one. If you make a strong strike, it's impossible for it to be defended by obstacles in your goal! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it. -- Anthony Storr
I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. -- Georg Cantor
America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons. -- Nathanael Greene
I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good. -- Vaclav Havel
Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate. -- Henry Margenau
Gazzy, man, jeezum!" Fang exclaimed. "What the heck have you been eating for God's sake?" That was a smoke bomb!" Gazzy defended himself. "Not even i could fill this whole flippin' house! -- James Patterson

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