Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

In Cookie's defense, it was raining wildcats and rabid dogs.

In addition, we will improve the Department of Defense's cyber capabilities. A new threat, a new problem, very expensive, and we're not doing very well with cyber.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

Innocence is its own defense.

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

In my lame pescetarian defense, it's very hard to be a girl and say you won't eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds and you're anorexic. Accept them and you're on the Atkins. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and you're bulimic. Best to keep perfectly still and bring an IV of fluids with you to dinner.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

I read in self-defense.

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy.

I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense

I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.

I think we will have to spend more on defense, for infrastructure, for extension of the broadband network and also for domestic security.

...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything

It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers

It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.