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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art. – John Donne	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
I thought Spartans fought with honor. Yet you seek to kill me when I have no way to defend myself? Not fair! – Hermes	added by anonymous 12 years ago
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. – Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 4. June, 1940	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. – Arnold H. Glasgow	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. – Edward Abbey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. – Sir Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity. – Colonel Morgan, In response to the British demand of the surrender of Fort Washington	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence. – malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president. – John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. – Jean Francois Revel	added by anonymous 13 years ago
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country. – George W. Bush	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend. – Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II	added by anonymous 13 years ago
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. – Daniel Webster	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. – Alan Watts	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it. – Andr Maurois	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. – Edward R. Murrow	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. – S. G. Tallentyre	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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