A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity.
I’ve personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I’ve tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I’ve led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Why am I a liberal? Because I don’t forget that I’m an immigrant and that I’m a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
A lot of people think you’re not the champion until you defend it one time.
When I represent my country on the field, I do so with heartfelt gratitude to the people who fight for and defend our fundamental freedoms – to believe in whatever I want, to love whoever I want, and to be a valued member of society while doing so. That’s the America I play for.
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I’ve always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
The space where writing happens is a unique space that’s hard to define, and when you’re kicked out of it because you’re travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.
I wish I could understand why so many people have a nearly manic desire to excuse, defend, explain or condone evil.
The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.
As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world.
I defend like a man who likes to work too because I know that football is not just about what you do on the ball.
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech – and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.
Don’t drag the Mossad into political arguments. These are people who can’t defend themselves.
