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"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." »Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191
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"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)" »Ronald Reagan
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." »William Blake
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"... it's simply wrong to always order kids to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting." »Erma Bombeck
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"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." »H.L. Mencken
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." »James Nicoll
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