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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. -- Winston Churchill
He who defends everything defends nothing. -- Frederick the Great
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. -- Robert South
Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life. -- Rafael Correa
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. -- Marshall McLuhan
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. -- Laurence J. Peter
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. -- Erma Bombeck
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. -- Nathalie Sarraute
I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me. -- Tom Brady
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. -- William Penn
For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control. -- Boris Spassky
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. -- Albert Camus
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights. -- Mark McKinnon
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks. -- Salman Rushdie
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. -- Maimonides
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. -- Annie Dillard
A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals. -- Pope Francis
To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate. -- Glenn Greenwald
In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights. -- Justin Trudeau
The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too. -- Noreena Hertz
How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old. -- Richard Dawkins
Exercise thy lasting youth defends. -- John Gay
Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it. -- Mason Cooley
No science ever defends its first principles. -- Aristotle
Man only honors what he conquers or defends. -- Joseph Goebbels
Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all. -- Ayn Rand
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days. -- Annie Dillard
... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility. -- Fred Hoyle
You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself -- Swami Vivekananda
One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant. -- Sun Tzu
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. -- David Brin
Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends. -- George Crabbe
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism. -- Miguel de Unamuno
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. -- Gerrit Smith
The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you. -- Rush Limbaugh
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality. -- William Sloane Coffin
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. -- Winston Churchill
God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we. -- Timothy Keller
I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political. -- Brigitte Bardot
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. -- Vladimir Lenin
He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love. -- Laozi
Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you. -- Sun Tzu
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A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness. -- Laozi
I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf. -- Michel Ocelot
Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation. -- Leonardo Boff
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths. -- Walter F. Mondale
You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. -- Henry Rollins
Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems. -- Thomas M. Disch
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities. -- Walter Scott
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself. -- Lionel Trilling
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man. -- Herbert Spencer
A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. -- Barack Obama
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter. -- Harold Lasswell
While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it. -- Max Blumenthal
This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour. -- Martin Luther
You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly. -- Stefan Molyneux
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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will. -- Wendell Berry

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