“Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed”
Bernard Berenson
“There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.”
Victor Hugo
“There might conceivably have been a bit of creative accounting. This tends to happen when companies are defending themselves. They want to show the situation under current management looks as positive as possible.”
Roger Nightingale
“They had to defend themselves.”
Margherita Amodeo
“The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves”
Charles Reade
“Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact,”
Charles Taylor
“I've defended your nation, I chose to do it, and the only way I can defend your tax dollars is if you elect me as your auditor.”
Jack Jackson
