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The source is The Defence of the Epilogue, or, An Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Last Age, published in 1672 with Almanzor and Almahide, or, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, which had been roundly criticized, especially for its language.
In 1966, only two years after the publication of the book, General de Gaulle, then president of France, established a High Committee for the Defence and the Expansion of the French Language.
The senior John Adams was a leader in the American Revolution and wrote the influential tracts Thoughts on Government and Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America . He saw no reason his eldest son, born in 1767, shouldn't attain equal greatness.
Lamenting "the near total erosion of the distinction between the upmarket dailies and their tabloid print and television inferiors," MacArthur attacked both the Times and the Washington Post for persisting in a "self-righteous persecution of Mr. Clinton and defence of Mr. Starr's vice-squad techniques."
“The Met Office--a part of the Ministry of Defence and therefore shielded from accountability and the prying eyes of outsiders--is beyond the pail.”