#defenders

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders. ↗

— William Hague

#defenders #disgrace #ethnic #human #human rights

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#civil #civil liberties #criminals #defenders #liberals

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

#heat #more #often #suffers #than

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#defenders #defense #during #faith #fighting

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold. ↗

— Tiffeny Milbrett

#ask #defenders #every #forwards #keepers

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

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#cannot #centuries #defenders #freedoms #granted

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