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28 quotesA patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Patriotism
Edward Abbey
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Learning
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Taxes and Taxation
Bernard Berenson
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Obstinacy
Edmund Burke
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Animals
Lord Byron
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Wordiness
Winston Churchill
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Army and Navy
Calvin Coolidge
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Temper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
Focus
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Critics and Criticism
German Proverb
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
Communication
Oliver Goldsmith
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Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Injustice
Lillian Hellman
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He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
Fights and Fighting
Master Kahn
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
Argument
Andre Maurois
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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Life and Living
Henri Nouwen
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Risk
Ovid
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
Truth
William Penn
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Freedom
Pericles
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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
God
Francis Picabia
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
Power
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Responsibility
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Innocence
Bishop Robert South
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Defend your limitations and you own them!
Limitation
Source Unknown
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It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
Reputation
Source Unknown
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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun