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Quotes About Defend

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.
~ James Carville
Why are we up here?" Mark asked. Alec pointed a finger at him. "Because it's what you do when someone comes to your house and attacks your people. You fight back. I'm not going to let these bloodsuckers get away with that crap.
~ James Dashner
Tonight, they'd fight. Tonight, they'd make their stand, once and for all.
~ James Dashner
If you presume to take God's place, audaciously deciding what He is to say and how He is to say it, you have placed yourself over God! We lack the authority to judge Him. Nor are our efforts needed to defend Him. His honor stands far above any of our efforts to secure it.
~ James E. Adams
Where is there a systematic theology class that helps students realize that when you unpack the inclination or the nature of the Trinity or the two natures of Christ or the substitutionary atonement, you commune with the Lord as you defend and contend for the doctrine, or else you are not doing it right? No wonder people often don't want to be around doctrinally driven individuals! They are not doing doctrine right. They are not emotionally in touch with the truths they are teaching.
~ James MacDonald
For thirty years I've defended this sacred place with the power of my mighty steed, Sunracer, my legendary lightning lance, and my unflagging faith." "Horses don't live thirty years," said Sorrow. "This is Sunracer VI, though
~ James Maxey
We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.
~ James Monroe
A man's house is his castle.
~ James Otis
Because power is inherently patriotic, it is characteristic of finite players to seek a growth of power in a society as a way of increasing the power of a society. It is in the interest of a society therefore to encourage competition within itself, to establish the largest possible number of prizes, for the holders of prizes will be those most likely to defend the society as a whole against its competitors.
~ James P Carse
Well, the story so far certainly is strange enough; the robot stood here for three days and nights after its arrival, we think now waiting for a deputation of lizards. Several politicians thought to have lizard-like characteristics were sent to parley with the robot but were fried by the flying arc-welding kits which defend this area. That resulted in the almost complete annihilation of the Cabinet and many Opposition MPs.
~ Douglas Adams
Not in my swamp, with my alligators. -Pendergast
~ Douglas Preston
Angels and ministers of grace defend us," Pendergast murmured.
~ Douglas Preston
If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.
~ Kelly Ayotte
Oh, I love astronomy. I'm a Pisces. What sign are you?" Which had made Mac laugh again, and he started to explain the difference between astronomy and astrology. Tiffany was apparently absolutely fascinated…and fascinating. His gaze--and Jason's--was riveted on her. I gave another little shrug, feeling a need to defend my sister, who might be in need of a trip down the yellow brick road to ask the wizard for some brains.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
~ Mahershala Ali
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
There's no Democratic and Republican seats or gyms or coffee shops at the Supreme Court. Every American should be able to celebrate the fact that we aspire to nine justices who are looking to defend our rights and to defend the Constitution, not to advance policy preferences.
~ Ben Sasse
I think you've got to really keep attacking on grass, it's the hardest surface to defend on.
~ Tim Henman
Naïve cynicism loves itself more than the world; it defends itself in lieu of defending the world. I'm interested in the people who love the world more, and in what they have to tell us.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.
~ Richard Dawkins
It is all too easy to confuse fundamentalism with passion. I may well appear passionate when i defend evolution against a fundamentalist creationist, but this is not because of a rival fundamentalism of my own. It is because the evidence for evolution is overwhelmingly strong and I am passionately distressed that my opponent can't see it - or, more usually, refuses to look at it because it contradicts his holy books.
~ Richard Dawkins
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.
~ Richard Dawkins
The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.
~ Richard Dawkins
Do I look like a fucking slave to you?" he asked them. And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.
~ Richard K. Morgan