Quotes with defending

  • Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.

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  • Ben Klassen If there is one thing in this wonderful world of ours that is worth preserving, defending, and promoting, it is the White Race.
    Natures Eternal Religion Natures Eternal Religion (1973), Ch. 2
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bobby Ray Inman And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
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  • Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bob Ainsworth As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bob Barr Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Peter Bechmann Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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  • Carly Fiorina Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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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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  • 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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  • John F. Kennedy In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Paine It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bill Flores On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bob Barr The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Edmund Burke They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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