God defend the right. [ William Shakespeare ]
God defend me from the man of one book. [ Proverb ]
It is easier to strike than defend well. [ Proverb ]
Angels and ministers of grace defend us! [ William Shakespeare ]
Defend me, common sense, say I,
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old with drawing nothing up. [ William Cowper ]
Even the lion has to defend itself against flies. [ German Proverb ]
Good men want the laws for nothing but to defend themselves. [ Proverb ]
Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. [ The French Ana ]
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative. [ Goldsmith ]
God defend me from the still water, and I'll keep myself from the rough. [ Proverb ]
The cause of a friend, a destitute and an exemplary cause, we ought to defend. [ Thrasea ]
Be kind to my remains; and O defend Against your judgment, your departed friend. [ Dryden ]
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty? [ Publius Syrus ]
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last. [ Fielding ]
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. [ Daniel Webster ]
The castle which Conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men, than her reputation against women. [ Rochebrune ]
The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. [ Charles I. of England ]
Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They define every man's rights, and stand between and defend the individual liberties of all men. [ Holland ]
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend
it. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
No passions are without their use, none without their nobleness, when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend. [ John Ruskin ]
When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. [ Junius ]