Defend

Famous quotes containing the word defend:

“I don’t know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)