Defend Freedom

Famous quotes containing the words defend and/or freedom:

“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)