Famous quotes containing the words public and/or defenders:
“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)