Defend

Famous quotes containing the word defend:

“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)