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Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party. -- Mark McKinnon
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Defending mediocrity is exhausting. -- Seth Godin
Defending nature is defending our existence! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow. -- Peter Drucker
In Canada, Defending Girls from Islamic Honor Killings Is 'Racist' -- Pamela Geller
Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries. -- Edward Snowden
Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
If I win and play well, then the ranking will take care of itself. Defending points is really not a problem. Just go out and play and not worry about it. -- Pete Sampras
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission) -- Ronald Reagan
I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work. -- Douglas Wood
As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas. -- Bob Ainsworth
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. -- Pam Brown
Good relations with Russia are great news. Putting a stop to the [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership] is great news. Defending American industry against the invasion of Chinese products. Renegotiating the role of NATO. And a similar approach on the issue of immigration. This is all great news. -- Matteo Salvini
Defending against military-strength malware is a real challenge for the computer security industry. Furthermore, the security industry is not global. It is highly focused in just a handful of countries. The rest of the countries rely on foreign security labs to provide their everyday digital security for them. -- Mikko Hypponen
Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? -- Rick Santorum
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. -- Dana Plato
I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes. -- George W. Bush
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get. -- Dana Plato
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. -- Ronald Reagan
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
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
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. -- Alice Walker
Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. -- Christine Gregoire
Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess. -- Hassan Nasrallah
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. -- Thomas Paine
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. -- John F. Kennedy
The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it. -- Jeff Miller
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. -- Barack Obama
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. -- Richard Dawkins
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. -- John Thune
I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending. -- Virat Kohli
No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come. -- Judy Biggert
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
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. -- Andrew Jackson
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage. -- Michel Onfray
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. -- George Grosz
Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it. -- Pete Hegseth
I have a very personal feeling about how special America is, and I know how precious freedom is. It is a sacred gift, sanctified by those who have lived it and those who have died defending it. My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated,' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish. -- Teresa Heinz
Manchester City are defending like beavers -- Chris Kamara
Passivity is the same as defending injustice. -- Deepak Chopra
Everyone has different ways of defending themselves. -- Luis Suarez
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs. -- Victor Cruz
This way of life is worth defending. -- George W. Bush
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves. -- Jack Kornfield
Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls. -- Jim Brosnan
If we must die, we die defending our rights. -- Sitting Bull
Women love to hear a man defending their wife. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding. -- Dick Motta
I can be like a lioness when defending my people. -- Shakira
The government should always be the one defending civil liberties. -- Tim Cook
The trick to defending Kentucky's home court is....better defending -- Tubby Smith
It's not terribly fun defending you (oil companies), but I do. -- Larry Craig
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. -- Edmund Burke
Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending? -- Judy Woodruff
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Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. -- Drake
Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath? -- Phil Ochs
There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music. -- Judd Apatow
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard. -- Jill Lepore
You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself. -- Richard M. Nixon
I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment. -- Hillary Clinton
I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it. -- Tammy Wynette
The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself. -- Wallace Stevens
You never look silly when you're defending the American people and their pocketbook. -- Marsha Blackburn
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending. -- Pat Buchanan
I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent. -- George Stephanopoulos
Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it. -- Ben Chifley
George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom. -- Rick Perry
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. -- James A. Garfield
The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending. -- Francois Fillon
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. -- Lewis Mumford
When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In a society as broken as ours, "antisocial" behavior is the only behavior worth defending. -- Lauren McLaughlin
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology. -- Greg L. Bahnsen
After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish. -- Philip Kerr
And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was -- Janice Hardy
There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here. -- Rick Riordan
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else. -- Glenn Greenwald
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. -- Ben Lerner
Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself. -- John Pierrakos
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. -- Thomas Hardy
When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort. -- Malcolm X
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind. -- Huineng
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. -- Edward Dmytryk
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures. -- Jennifer Crusie
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. -- Eckhart Tolle
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves. -- Veronica Roth
You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive. -- Ted Cruz
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose. -- Rachel Cusk
The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors. -- Joe Carnahan
Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title. -- Kim Yuna
I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. -- Warren Farrell
If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement. -- Winston Churchill
A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it. -- C. S. Lewis
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols? -- Edward Whittemore
Nobody, at least sitting in my seat , is defending drunk driving. I am not for drunk driving. -- Tucker Carlson
All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it. -- Chris Hayes
I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech. -- Larry the Cable Guy
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. -- John Boorman
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. -- Jean-Luc Godard
I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending. -- Marcelo Garcia
When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us. -- Byron Katie
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. -- Jock Sturges
Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great. -- Ronald Reagan
Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons. -- Michael Shermer
I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it. -- Rick Warren
I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others. -- Doris Lessing
Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America. -- William Allen White
Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend? -- Derek Webb

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