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defenders

«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. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.»
«I love to score goals after passing all the defenders as well as the keeper. This is not my speciality, but my habit.»
«Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.»
«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.»
«The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten»
«The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.»
«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»
«The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.»
«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.»
«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»