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When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a Memorial Day, a military parade, or a decorated grave. -- Thomas S. Monson
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. -- Edward R. Murrow
If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it. -- Lamar Alexander
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
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother. -- Phyllis Schlafly
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
We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad. -- Bob Menendez
Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government. -- Peter DeFazio
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
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home. -- Florence Kelley
Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner. -- Gail Collins
A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad. -- Oliver Ellsworth
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political. -- Fred Hampton
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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
The trick to defending Kentucky's home court is....better defending -- Tubby Smith
If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail. -- Lynne Stewart

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