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Quotes About Defend

To remember can be at times no more than a cold duty, for we remember only in the limited way that is bearable. We observe small rites, but we defend ourselves against that terrible memory that is stronger than will. We defend ourselves from the rooms, the scenes, the objects that make for hallucination, that make the senses start up and fasten upon a ghost. We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.
~ Theresa Rebeck
I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.
~ Christopher Buckley
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
~ John Gresham Machen
Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque.
~ S.E. Cupp
We have a choice. We can simply defend what we have or create what we need.
~ Gary Marx
Take heed, you bear in mind the piety you owe unto your country and unto your fellow countrymen, whose slaughter by the treachery of the Payneham shall be unto your disgrace everlasting. Unless you press hardily forward to defend them. Fight therefore for your country, and if it be that death overtake you, suffer it willingly for your country's sake. For death itself is victory, and a healing unto the soul.
~ Geoffrey of Monmouth
Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.
~ Larry Dixon
I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.
~ Marine Le Pen
What I love about natural climate solutions is that we should be doing all these things anyway. Instead of making painful choices and deploying miserable means to a desirable end, we can defend ourselves from disaster by enhancing our world of wonders.
~ George Monbiot
I wouldn't let anyone say a bad word about Cheryl Cole.
~ Luke Pasqualino
On January 3, 2019, I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. It was the third time in my life of public service that I had taken such an oath, but the words were just as profound to me as the first time I spoke them.
~ Abigail Spanberger
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
Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.
~ Mike Rogers
In the 21st century, our adversaries will continue to use cyberattacks against us. We need to be prepared to defend our networks against this growing threat to our democracy, especially the most fundamental part of our political system: our elections.
~ Amy Klobuchar
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals.
~ Douglas Murray
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
~ John McCrae
I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake... I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.
~ Emmanuel Macron
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.
~ Samuel Adams
If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.
~ George Lucas
There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.
~ Tucker Carlson
it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could. This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.
~ Mark Bowden