Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.

As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.

A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test every time I step into the batter's box: Can I do better than the last time? And that's why I love it.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.

"Bobby Tom told me he’s not afraid of the Chargers’ defense." "Bobby Tom’ll tell you he’s not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in his opinion.

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

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 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 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 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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

Defense is the first act of war.

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

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.

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

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

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

Defense is superior to opulence.