So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns.
Manchester City are defending like beavers
I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.
Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.
Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.
. . . once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.
You can say I'm a hater. But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and of the right of children to have a mother and father. . . I would argue that the future of America hangs in the balance, because the future of the family hangs in the balance. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it.
Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. I did not want to remain a martyr to something that I absolutely believed was immoral and wrong. It's as simple as that.
Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.