Top 70 Defended Quotes

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
James Surowiecki
I’ve always said that wherever I have played, I’ve always respected that jersey, and I’ve always defended it as though I had been a supporter of the team all my life.
Edinson Cavani
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
George S. Patton
I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.
Francois Hollande
In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.
Andrei Sakharov
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion – the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
C. S. Lewis
I’ve been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.
Tucker Carlson
I’ve prosecuted several financial crimes at the federal level and I’ve also defended plenty in my private practice.
Matthew Whitaker
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
Jacques Verges
I carried the WBO belt for five years and defended it 15 times against 10 world champions.
Naseem Hamed
I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petition submitted by some of my co-accused regarding defence, etc., I would not have defended myself.
Bhagat Singh
Freedom of choice and free speech without fear must be defended.
Tan Cheng Bock
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
Livy
When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
Tom Landry
I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It’s just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.
Judge Mills Lane
American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.
Juan Gabriel
In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Althea Gibson
I’m a big believer in comedy writers. I’ve always defended the honor of all comedy writers. It’s extremely difficult, but I’ve always felt that comedy writers far more easily can move toward drama than vice versa.
Craig Mazin
I’ve defended the Clintons longer than I’ve been a liberal, but I don’t have any nostalgia for that.
Cenk Uygur
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. Bush