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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.

Quote by Winston Churchill about fight

When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.

Quote by Winston Churchill about woman, contentment

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about democracy

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Quote by François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire about death, rightness, contentment

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a...

Quote by Camille Paglia about liberty, democracy, thinking, state, use

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Quote by Thomas Paine about reason, faith, real estate

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Quote by Thomas Paine about consequences, defeat, enemies

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about opinion, conversation, good, good luck

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about dignity, need, being

That's why we must do more to defend ourselves, give police wider powers in pursuing terrorists who want to do us harm.

Quote by George Pataki about police

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

Quote by George Pataki

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Quote by George S. Patton about success, attack

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, destruction, society

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

Quote by Mike Pence about suffering, homeland, present

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about opinion, people

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

Quote by William Penn about friendship

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Quote by William Penn about reason, truth, rightness, nothing

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Quote by William Penn about truth

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time, and sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about god, liberty, americans, creation, life, time

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Quote by Pericles about liberty, courage