Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Defense is the first act of war.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

Defense is superior to opulence.

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Europe has become the first line of defense for the United States. It has become a training ground for terrorists.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.

Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.

Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.