Top 1200 Defend Quotes & Sayings

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.

If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who's coming in.

I defend CNN! I defend all sorts of people when I think it's wrong.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

History suggests that the disillusioned and the disaffected do not readily take to the streets nor man the barricades to defend a system that failed to defend them.

People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It's like that. If you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.

It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

It is not true that Sarri did not defend, indeed all of his work starts from there. But it's a different way to defend, in a much more advanced area of the pitch.

In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.

Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you're not a champion until you defend your title.

Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.

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.

The players who defend against him make fouls because it's always hard to defend Neymar and take the ball without fouling him.

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

If you've written something that you believe is true, and if you can afford to defend it, then you've got to defend it.

For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed.

Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life... and fights to defend pride.

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.

I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'

I'm able to defend. A lot of guys don't have that willingness to defend and I think as a guard who's undersized - that's what everybody says; I'm undersized - I'm able to defend and willing to defend and bring that.

Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.

We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

I’m fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don’t defend myself, no one else will.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

I defend my goal as if it were my home. I do my best to defend it and not to allow anyone to score goals or penetrate that. It's true.

It is literally my job to support and defend the President, so it is odd to me that I am being asked to defend or explain 'comments in support' of my boss.

How can we expect the Biden Administration to defend American ideals abroad, if the president won't even defend them at home?

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

I'm going to speak my mind. I'm going to defend conservatism as I understand it. I'm going to defend our ideas as the Republican Party.

Military firefighters put their lives on the line each day - not just to defend our country, but also to selflessly defend their fellow servicemembers.

You need to defend as a team to defend well.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

I don't know who the great lawyers are, and I presume you can't get to them. I know of no case where it can be said for certain that they took part. They defend some people, but you can't get them to do that through your own efforts, they only defend the ones they want to defend. But I assume a case they take on must have progressed beyond the lower court. It's better not to think of them at all, otherwise you'll find the consultations with the other lawyers, their advice and their assistance, extremely disgusting and useless.

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

I want to defend my throne. All my fans know. They love me. I want to defend this; I want to be a champ and keep defending. Come try to take over my village.

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

Nuclear is the single greatest threat. Just to go down the list, we defend Japan, we defend Germany, we defend South Korea, we defend Saudi Arabia, we defend countries. They do not pay us. But they should be paying us, because we are providing tremendous service and we're losing a fortune. That's why we're losing - we're losing - we lose on everything. I say, who makes these - we lose on everything.

Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

Defend yourselves! If people don't defend their rights, they lose them.

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country's most important institution - one I am more than happy to defend. One I did, in fact, defend for 37 years.

Champions win and defend it wherever they need to defend it.

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.