Famous quotes containing the words defending and/or champion:
“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)
“What a terrible thing has happened to us all! To you there, to us here, to all everywhere. Peace who was becoming bright-eyed, now sits in the shadow of death; her handsome champion has been killed as he walked by her very side. Her gallant boy is dead. What a cruel, foul, and most unnatural murder! We mourn here with you, poor, sad American people.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)