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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. -- Calvin Coolidge
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. -- Edward Abbey
The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself. -- Steve Buyer
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. -- Ann Coulter
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. -- Boris Spassky
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. -- Ayn Rand
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song? -- Francis Scott Key
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker. -- Ruud van Nistelrooy
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. -- Richard Stallman
Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. -- Ferdinand Mount
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. -- George Orwell
I'll get a nice little break, after doing Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Whether I'm in [his show], I don't know, but there's The Defenders. -- Mike Colter
I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a Nation." -- Ishmael Reed
I've been a fan of 'The Defenders' since childhood, and Devil Slayer was always one of my favorite members of the team - especially during J.M. DeMatteis' wonderful run on the series. -- Brian Keene
It's a long arc and a long storyline, and I think it leaves us in a great place to see how we interact again, whether that be for The Defenders, Jessica Jones Season 2, or whatever. We'll see. I don't know. -- Mike Colter
Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil! Who from destruction save us; who from spoil Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil; Would I could duly praise you, that each deed Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read. -- George Crabbe
You're jumping over the bench, jumping back onto the ice and you're working as a unit. Defenders can move up the ice and score goals as well as the forwards. It's a real fast, physical game. It's the fastest game on earth so it's pretty enjoyable to watch. -- Gerad Adams
I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender. -- Lou Barletta
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. -- Lord Acton
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. -- Douglas Haig
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. -- Shawn Amos
And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started. -- Rick Perry
You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward. -- Landon Donovan
The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through. -- Ronaldinho
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants. -- Dick Cavett
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America. -- William J. Clinton
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted. -- Virgil Goode
We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development. -- Jinato Hu
You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold. -- Tiffeny Milbrett
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn
If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. -- Antony Beevor
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. -- Thomas Paine
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation. -- Matt Gonzalez
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures. -- Ravi Zacharias
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders. -- Xavi
More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. -- John Grisham
The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of terrorism with proof of guilt. One constantly hears U.S. government defenders referring to 'terrorists' when what they actually mean is: those accused by the government of terrorism. -- Glenn Greenwald
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things. -- Oscar Robertson
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children. -- Gunter Grass
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. -- Primo Levi
Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders -- Kevin Keegan
Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders. -- Ron Atkinson
Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense. -- Abraham Lincoln
Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company. -- Peter Drury
The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony. -- Mark Sheppard
Women are my biggest defenders. It's that bad-boy syndrome. Now girls chase me. -- O. J. Simpson
If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders. -- Tess Gerritsen
Giggs drops deep into that Sheringham position where he can turn and ride defenders. -- Martin Tyler
The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people. -- Caleb Carr
When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives . -- Jen Hatmaker
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders. -- George W. Bush
I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense. -- Metta World Peace
While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more. -- Gary Sinise
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys. -- Christine Pelosi
Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree. -- Elliott Sober
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing. -- Diogenes
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. -- Frederic Bastiat
You can't have three defenders moving up and one going back. The decisions a team makes are important. As a whole. -- Guus Hiddink
When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker. -- Johan Cruijff
Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. -- Bonnie L. Oscarson
The playmakers need to read the game and need to be on the same page as the defenders and the forwards... -- Guus Hiddink
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. -- Christopher Hitchens
The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere. -- Mickey Rooney
There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem -- Brett Brown
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State. -- Murray Rothbard
Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors - Pray for us. -- Mother Teresa
Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. -- John Grisham
Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders. -- William Hague
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction. -- Edward Abbey
I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely. -- Elie Wiesel
The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights. -- Anthony Romero
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it. -- Yahtzee Croshaw
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word. -- Louise Penny
I don't know if I'm the best. There are better shooters, better defenders, but there aren't too many female who play the game like I do. -- Chamique Holdsclaw
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Young Chinese, who have grown up in an age of prosperity and stability, are typically the most passionate defenders of the Chinese political and economic way. -- Evan Osnos
When better screening certain Muslim immigrants first came up, one of the big defenders was Carl Higbie. He's a former Navy Sean and a [Donald] Trump supporter. -- Megyn Kelly
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Some coaches spend their time trying to get an overview of all eleven defenders. I prefer to zero in on one guy at a time to get the right clue. -- Sid Gillman
The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve. -- Simone Weil
Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot. -- Rand Paul
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.) -- William Manchester
A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom. -- Naomi Wolf
All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship. -- Roger Williams
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics. -- Bill Kristol
Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics. -- Bill Kristol

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