“ Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
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“ There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. ”
- Demosthenes- Copy
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“ Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ We are here to protest Britain's role in sending us to the U.N. Security Council. We must defend our right to nuclear technology. ”
- Mohammad Ali- Copy
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“ Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. ”
- General Colin Powell- Copy
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“ It's significant to note that a 'bumper-to-bumper' automobile warranty doesn't include the bumpers. ”
- Andrew Green- Copy
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“ If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country. ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
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“ Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. ”
- Andrew Jackson- Copy
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“ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
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“ I think our defense is better than we played (Monday) night and I think our offense is better, but obviously we proved we don't play super every weekend,... They whipped me, they whipped my coaches and they whipped my football team. ”
- Dick Vermeil- Copy
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“ Israel has the right to defend itself and to deal with security, but Israel also has a need to bear in mind the consequences of action and Israel's stake in development of reforms in the Palestinian institutions. ”
- Ari Fleischer- Copy
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“ The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. ”
- Montesquieu- Copy
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“ The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law. ”
- Andrew Jackson- Copy
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“ Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights, fulfills a man's ego like an automobile. ”
- Sir William- Copy
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“ Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan. ”
- John Bunyan- Copy
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“ Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons. ”
- Elisabeth Kubler Ross- Copy
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“ The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. ”
- William Morris Hughes- Copy
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“ America is committed to seeing civil liberties protected as a shield for freedom-loving people, not as a sword for freedom-loathing people. ”
- John Ashcroft- Copy
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