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Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 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 hillswe shall never surrender. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it. – Evelyn Beatrice Hall	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced. – James Arthur Baldwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion. – James Burgh	added by anonymous 14 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 the 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. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms. – Tench Coxe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide. – Ira Glasser	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage. – Samuel S. Janus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight. – Martin Luther	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore. – Simon Pokagon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack. – Steven Runciman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens. – Menachem Begin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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