#defenders

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

#defenders #does #heat #more #nothing

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#bang #business #club #defenders #every

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#forgets #forgotten #itself #nation #which

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song? ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#defenders #deliverance #deserve #does #heart

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#claim #defenders #deny #earth #individual

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#defense #idea #needs #only #wilderness

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#defenders #dynamism #initiative #like #modern

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#actually #blocking #capture #city #defenders

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#defense #her #itself #nation #obligation