You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
When we were attacked militarily it was our duty to defend our country.
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.
If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.
Democracy must learn to defend itself.
In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.
Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.
One who knows not what his rights are can never know when they are taken and is unable to defend them. He is like a man who believes he owns a piece of ground which his neighbor also claims, but he doesn't know its boundaries. The neighbor continues to encroach further and further onto land he suspects is his, but since he is never certain where the boundary is, he cannot check the advance. Until he takes a firm position and says: "this far and no further," there is no line.
The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?" "So the minstrels say," said Éomer. "Then let us defend it, and hope!
There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life.
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet. . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .
Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.
We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
I will fight to defend liberty.