Defending

Famous quotes containing the word defending:

“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

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

“I make this direct statement to the American people that there is far less chance of the United States getting into war, if we do all we can now to support the nations defending themselves against attack by the Axis than if we acquiesce in their defeat, submit tamely to an Axis victory, and wait our turn to be the object of attack in another war later on.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)