Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

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 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.

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

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

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

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

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

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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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 play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

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.

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

I read in self-defense.

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

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

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

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

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.

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's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.

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.

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.

...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 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 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.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

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 may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.