Defense famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
-- Eugene McCarthy -
By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense
-- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor -
Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.
-- Frank B. Kellogg -
I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.
-- Frank Buchman -
These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.
-- Frank Iero -
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
-- Frank Oz -
The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.
-- Frank Rich -
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
-- Fred Brooks -
There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.
-- Fred Phelps -
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.
-- Gangaji -
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
-- Garry Shandling -
There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself
-- Gene Sharp -
You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the term - of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.
-- George C. Marshall -
No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.
-- George Carlin -
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.
-- George F. Kennan -
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.
-- George P. Shultz -
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
-- George S. Patton -
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
-- George Wald -
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
-- George Wald -
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.
-- George Wald -
We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
-- George Wald -
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
-- George Washington -
Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.
-- Geraldo Rivera -
When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time the use of self-defense techniques should be considered. Even at times like these, do not show any intention of attacking, but first let the attacker become careless. At that time attack him concentrating one's whole strength in one blow to a vital point and in the moment of surprise, escape and seek shelter and help.
-- Gichin Funakoshi -
When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.
-- Gilbert Arenas -
I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.
-- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo -
Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.
-- Hank Haney -
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
-- Helen Hunt Jackson -
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.
-- Henning von Tresckow -
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
-- Henry Anatole Grunwald -
One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
-- Henry James -
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
-- Henry R. Luce -
It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.
-- Herman Kahn -
One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.
-- Homer -
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.
-- Howard Rheingold -
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
-- Ice T -
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
-- Ida B. Wells -
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
-- Irvin S. Cobb -
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.
-- J. L. Austin -
Winning is more related to good defense than good offense
-- Jack Ramsay -
Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
-- Jack Scalia -
National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.
-- Jacques Chirac -
For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
-- James Brady -
The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
-- James Monroe -
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
-- James Q. Wilson -
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.
-- James Taranto -
I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.
-- Janet Evanovich -
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.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'
-- Jay Carney -
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
-- Jean Shepherd -
The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.
-- Jeff Cooper -
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
-- Jefferson Davis -
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
-- Jill Lepore -
Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
-- Jim Fergus -
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.
-- Jim Garrison -
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.
-- Jim Harrison -
We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
-- Jim Talent -
From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for...
-- Jo Labadie -
One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.
-- Joan Didion -
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
-- Joanne Greenberg -
An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology
-- Jodi Picoult -
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
-- Joe Bastianich -
There is no defense against a base on balls.
-- Joe Garagiola -
I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.
-- Joe Lieberman -
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.
-- Joe Lieberman -
The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.
-- Joe Lieberman -
Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.
-- Joe Montana -
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
-- John Bolton -
Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.
-- John Foster Dulles -
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
-- John Hersey -
One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.
-- John Poindexter -
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
-- John Quincy Adams -
Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.
-- John R. Leopold -
The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to demonstrate how we are reacting to the powers and forces that seem to influence us from the external world. They are part of our self image, and in some cases the mask is nothing more than a protective device, a defense mechanism.
-- John Randolph Price -
There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.
-- John S. Hall -
My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions
-- John Wooden -
If it doesn't make sense, you should find for the defense.
-- Johnnie Cochran -
If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.
-- Jon Huntsman, Jr. -
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.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
-- Joseph Addison -
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
-- Joseph Sobran -
My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.
-- Judd Apatow -
I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience
-- Juhani Pallasmaa -
Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.
-- Karl Donitz -
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.
-- Karl Mannheim -
February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
-- Katherine Paterson -
'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.
-- Keith Sullivan -
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.
-- Kenneth Rexroth -
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
-- Kevin Eubanks -
I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.
-- Kevin Towers -
While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.
-- Kim Il-sung -
National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.
-- Kim Jong Il -
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.
-- Kim Stanley -
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.
-- Kofi Annan -
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.
-- LaDainian Tomlinson
