Defenders Quotes - Page 5

• While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

  Gary Sinise

  Gratitude, Littles, Enough

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• Freedom and security are precious gifts that we, as Americans, should never take for granted. We must do all we can to extend our hand in times of need to those who willingly sacrifice each day to provide that freedom and security. While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

  Gary Sinise

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Hands

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• You can't fix a fundamentally broken law; you've got to replace it. That's why Congress can't save Obamacare with a few tweaks, despite what its defenders say. No quick fix can correct the main flaw: The law takes power away from patients and hands it to bureaucrats.

  Paul Ryan

  Law, Obamacare, Hands

  "Obamacare Is Beyond Repair' by Paul Ryan, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Enemy, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.274

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  Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Rights, Order, Support

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Faith, Fun, Real

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• Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol

  Cesc Fabregas

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• Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Running

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• In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Team

  "Johan Cruyff: Former Real Madrid President Ramon Calderon Pays Tribute To A ‘Visionary’" by Ramon Calderon, www.newsweek.com. March 24, 2016.

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• But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the administrators of the health-care centers where abortions are performed. In this sense abortion goes beyond the responsibility of individuals and beyond the harm done to them, and takes on a distinctly social dimension. It is a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be societys promoters and defenders.

  Pope John Paul II

  Fall, Responsibility, Abortion Laws

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• When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Realizing, Representatives

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• For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

  Tom Clancy

  Memories, Struggle, Fall

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• If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Liberty, Want, Ifs

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• Everyone, no matter what their marital circumstance or number of children, can be defenders of the Lord’s plan described in the family proclamation. If it is the Lord’s plan, it should also be our plan!

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Children, Numbers, Matter

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• Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Forgiveness, War, Naked

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• I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

  Gunter Grass

  Uncles, Children, Law

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• He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

  William Manchester

  Faith, Two, Church

  William Manchester (1983). “American Caesar”, Laurel

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• Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Character, Cities, Political

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.4, 谷月社

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• I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Kids, Thinking

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• We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Mind, Enemy

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• He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Balls, Legs

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• Giggs drops deep into that Sheringham position where he can turn and ride defenders.

  Martin Tyler

  Football, Giggs, Turns

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• Just as it wouldn't be right to only to have an economic dialogue with China, equally you shouldn't restrict your dialogue solely to issues around, say, human rights. You can raise all those issues, and that is what reflects a mature discussion. So I don't think essentially we have to choose between being partners in China's economic development and being proud defenders of British values.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Issues, Rights

  Source: www.economist.com

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• If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place and his acceleration will take him past any defender in the world.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Football, Thinking, Past

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• He's a wizard with his feet and is blessed with a gift for scoring goals. His best quality is his speed while the ball is at his feet. He may be the fastest man ever to lace up a football boot. No defender in the world can keep up with him.

  Lilian Thuram

  Football, Blessed, Men

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