Defenders Quotes

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  The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Military, Army, Navy

  Duff Gilfond, Calvin Coolidge (1932). “The Rise of Saint Calvin: Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge”

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• There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Errors, Failing

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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  The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Humor, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.125, Penguin

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• The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team
  function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field
  and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take
  advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack.

  Rinus Michels

  Team, Play, Space

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• There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem

  Brett Brown

  Basketball, Pride, Nba

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• We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Home, Men, Age

  YouTube Chanel "KD"/ "Edward R. Murrow: 'A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy'", www.youtube.com. November 10, 2014.

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• The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

  Edward Abbey

  Ideas, Environmental, Needs

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

  George Orwell

  Country, Political, Democracy

  George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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• I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Kids, Justice, Mind

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

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  Loss, Initiative, Advantages And Disadvantages

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• When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Couple, Moving

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• We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

  Hu Jintao

  Strong, Independent, Forever

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

  Boris Spassky

  Player, Chess, Modern

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• America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Grateful, America

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• More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

  John Grisham

  People, Criminals, Adequate

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• The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Change, Order, Enemy

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.19, Knickerbocker Classics

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• The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Secret, Progress

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 8, 1799.

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• I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

  William J. Clinton

  Change, America, Greed

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• I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

  Lou Barletta

  Towns, Small Town

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• War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, War, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?

  Amitav Ghosh

  Family, Country, Anger

  Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.31, Random House

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• To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

  Primo Levi

  Heart, Brain, Exaltation

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• My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Fighting, Goal

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• I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

  Marcelo Garcia

  Inspirational, Sports, Thinking

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