1. uphold - Verb
2. Uphold - Proper noun
To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense. Glenn Beck
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them. John Rawls
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. Thomas More
I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. John Diefenbaker
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own... Whether it our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith. Eric Hoffer
To redeem and uphold in our need. Icelandic Proverb