champion quotes

These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion conscience.

-John Milton
  Comus,  A Mask, l.209^11.

And it is a good sign that this masquerading knight- errant, this pretended champion of the rights of every other nation except those of the Irish nation, should be obliged to throw off the mask today, and to stand revealed as the man who by his own utterances is prepared to carry fire and sword into your homesteads unless you humbly abase yourselves before him, and before the landlords of the country.

- Charles Stewart Parnell
Speech successfully inciting Gladstone to arrest him, 9 Oct.