Quotes on Defenders

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?