Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
I'm in politics to defend the rights of Canadians - to secure a brighter future.
Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.
Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.
As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves, then the great American experience will come to an end.
If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
What I would like to see is for people to come together and say: Of course we're going to protect and defend the Second Amendment. But we're going to do it in a way that tries to save some of these 33,000 lives that we lose every year.
We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
I tell gun owners and hunters and sportsmen and Second Amendment supporters and Americans every day that all of these freedoms we have are just words on a piece of parchment paper unless we stand up and defend them every day.
We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values.
