Defend

Famous quotes containing the word defend:

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

“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Love was as subtly catched, as a disease;
But being got it is a treasure sweet,
Which to defend is harder than to get:
And ought not be prophaned on either part,
For though ‘tis got by chance, ‘tis kept by art.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)