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"The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision."
"The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend."
"Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility."
"While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace."
"Every good thing great and small needs defense"
"Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive."
"One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country."
"Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary."
"How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?"
"In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected."
"That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself."
"Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear."
