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"If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?"
"I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom."
"Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?"
"You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious."
"You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself."
"Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself."
"War can protect; it cannot create."
"The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law."
"I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights."
"I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files."
"O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies."
"We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves."
"Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others."
"It is a right to have a firearm to protect yourself. But it is not your right to be irresponsible. At the end of the day, it is not the gun that kills you, it is the irresponsible person that does."
"Whatever enchants also guides and protects."
"If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another."
"We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm."
"Arelia looked up at Macon. "It's not the house that protects her. It's the boy. I've never seen anything like it. No Caster can come between them."
"If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence."
"He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love."
