Top 54 Defend Your Life Quotes
#1. Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
Isabel Allende
#2. When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.
A. Nicholas Groth
#3. Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
Ludwig Von Mises
#4. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#6. My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#7. You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful and life will defend you.
Bryant McGill
#8. I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?
Michael Moore
#9. We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.
Nellie L. McClung
#10. Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.
Pope Francis
#11. Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.
L. Neil Smith
#12. Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life ... and fights to defend pride ...
Tite Kubo
#13. I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.
Joan Bauer
#14. A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.
Diosdado Macapagal
#15. I am still stunned by my capacity to spin Scripture, see what I wanted, ignore what I didn't, and use the Word to defend my life rather than define it.
Jen Hatmaker
#16. In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.
Frederick Lenz
#17. You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
Pope John Paul II
#18. I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.
Ted Cruz
#19. If we don't defend what we love-if we let it fade-then our lives lose meaning. We must declare ourselves of what we are ... What we love.
Guillermo Del Toro
#20. Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.
Ayelet Waldman
#21. To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
James A. Baldwin
#22. For the first time in his life, he wanted his wand back in his hand, not to defend himself, but to attack ... to kill.
J.K. Rowling
#23. Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams
#24. I'm fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don't defend myself, no one else will.
Alex Rodriguez
#25. America you are beautiful ... and blessed ... The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.
Pope John Paul II
#26. You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#27. Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do."
"But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy.
Anais Nin
#28. I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.
Pope Francis
#29. I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
George Konrad
#30. Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.
Erma Bombeck
#31. Come with me, Douglass; I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them.
John Brown
#32. Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.
Tony Blair
#33. You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.
Jonathan Tucker
#34. What we need to do is lead an international coalition which includes very significantly the Muslim nations in that region who are going to have to fight and defend their way of life.
Bernie Sanders
#35. A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.
African Spir
#36. The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Edward De Bono
#37. If you're willing to give your life to defend my rights, you can have sex with a pie and I will heat it up for you.
Wil Anderson
#38. Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!
Pope John Paul II
#39. Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
Eric Hoffer
#40. the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#41. The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
John Marshall
#42. If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.
Charley Reese
#43. Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.
E. E. Cummings
#44. At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
Whittaker Chambers
#45. Once, I started listing off all the people that I truly cared about. When I got to number seven, Penelope told me I either needed to whittle down my list or stop making friends immediately. My mother says you should never have more people in your life than you could defend from a hungry rakshasa.
Rainbow Rowell
#46. Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.
Jamsetji Tata
#47. There's no meaning to life as a wolf. If you don't have memories, it's like you never existed. You can't leave anything behind. I mean - how can I defend humanity? It's all that matters. Why would you throw that away?
Maggie Stiefvater
#48. But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
Sonny Perdue
#49. The service members who defend our way of life ask very little in return, but they deserve teachers who will be as relentless in teaching their children as the military is in protecting our interests at home and abroad.
Tucker Elliot
#50. Having a home means having somewhere to go back to. Having a family means having someone to defend. Having a life means knowing you'll do anything to keep it.
Mira Grant
#51. When you fall, never get up without gaining anything. Always find something on the way up. If there are only rocks, grasp one to throw in order to defend yourself.
Sameer
#52. Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#53. What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I
Patrick Rothfuss
#54. Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Mary Shelley