Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

Anybody who has watched me play knows I'm not one of the fastest guys, but I understand what's going on around me and what to look for. I know what the defense is doing.

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense.

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

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

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

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 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.

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 tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

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

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

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.