Famous quotes containing the words critics and/or defenders:
“Critics generally come to be critics not by reason of their fitness for this, but of their unfitness for anything else. Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were a crime, and counsel should be heard on both sides.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)