Quotes with defend

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  • Bernard Berenson Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Bernard Berenson Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Ben Simmons Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • B. B. King Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ovid Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Blake Farenthold Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • George Konrad I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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  • Alfred M. Gray I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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  • Alan Dershowitz I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Salman Rushdie I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
    (2015)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • John McCain I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • B. B. King I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Sowell If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
    Thomas Sowell
    American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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  • Frederick the Great In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Hubert Humphrey It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bernard Bailyn It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do rejects all restrictions imposed by form and formality and emphasizes the clever use of the mind and body to defend and attack.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 2
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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