Quotes of: Defends Keyword

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Robert Redford

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

Ferdinand Mount

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

Ted Cruz

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

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.

Bobby Ray Inman

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

Jose Mourinho

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.

Christine O'Donnell

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

Don Nickles

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

Dana Plato

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Boris Spassky

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

Bruce Schneier

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

B.F. Skinner

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

George Pataki

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

Diane Abbott

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Douglas Haig

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.

Jo Durie

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

James Taylor

[to Frodo] Boromir: I ask only for the strength to defend my people.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Irving Babbitt