Defense famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
-- Lawrence Clark Powell -
Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.
-- Lendon Smith -
When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.
-- Leon Panetta -
Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.
-- Leonard Roy Frank -
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
-- Loretta Young -
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.
-- Louis A. Johnson -
The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
-- Louise Slaughter -
That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
-- Luc Montagnier -
Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.
-- Lucy Freeman -
Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.
-- Lynn Austin -
I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.
-- Lynn Westmoreland -
Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
-- Malcolm X -
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense
-- Marc Andreessen -
We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
-- Margaret Atwood -
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
-- Margaret Edson -
What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?
-- Marianne Moore -
Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
-- Marilynne Robinson -
You can't be happy, taking away something I've worked on all my life to do and help my teammates and help my defense, ... It's just part of me, playing the puck. So, definitely, you can't be happy.
-- Martin Brodeur -
The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural defense of his own life, or of those whom he is prompted by instinct to preserve.
-- Mary Collyer -
The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense ...
-- Mary Ritter Beard -
Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.
-- Matt Kibbe -
The Patriot Act [...] makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense.
-- Michael Badnarik -
The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.
-- Michael Chertoff -
Been meddling, have you?†Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. “You must admit they didn’t have much in the way of a defense plan,†Hadrian said, pausing to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Royce smiled at him. “You just can’t help yourself, can you?
-- Michael J. Sullivan -
You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.
-- Michael Moore -
So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.
-- Michael Strahan -
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
-- Mike Royko -
In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.
-- Mira Grant -
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
-- Mitch Daniels -
Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.
-- Mohammed Omar -
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
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.
-- Moshe Dayan -
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
-- Moshe Dayan -
Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
-- Moshe Dayan -
Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.
-- Motobu Choki -
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.
-- Murray Rothbard -
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.
-- Natalia Ginzburg -
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
He put his arms around her. “Well, in my defense, then, whatever I did seemed to work, didn't it?†She sighed. “I suppose.†“You suppose?†“What do you want? A medal?†“For starters. A trophy would be nice, too.†She smiled. “What do you think you're holding right now?
-- Nicholas Sparks -
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
-- Noam Chomsky -
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
-- Norm Dicks -
Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty... If I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty.
-- Osama bin Laden -
Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.
-- Pandora Boxx -
Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
-- Paul Fussell -
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.
-- Paul Rusesabagina -
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.
-- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones -
A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.
-- Paulo Freire -
Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
-- Pete Hegseth -
When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'
-- Peter David -
I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.
-- Peter DeLuise -
Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate.
-- Peter P. Carr -
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
-- Primo Levi -
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
-- Publilius Syrus -
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
-- Puzant Kevork Thomajan -
I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.
-- Rachel Vincent -
But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.
-- Rafael Palmeiro -
I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level
-- Rafael Palmeiro -
My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.
-- Rand Paul -
Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.
-- Ravi Zacharias -
Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.
-- Ray Lewis -
You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.
-- Rob Gronkowski -
Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute.
-- Robert Goodloe Harper -
A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.
-- Robert Krulwich -
Defense is not like other discretionary spending.
-- Robert M. Gates -
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
-- Robert M. Gates -
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.
-- Robert M. Gates -
The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.
-- Robin Hayes -
Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.
-- Robin Williams -
It's not easy being a green conservative, but if we conservatives want to be true to our principles we have to move in that direction. It is morally right. It is religiously correct. It is economically prudent. It strengthens national defense. And it makes a better world for our children, and our children's children.
-- Rod Dreher -
From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.
-- Russ Carnahan -
Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.
-- Russell Baker -
You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.
-- Russell Pearce -
The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.
-- Russell Simmons -
Senator Biden was correct by calling for more to look into Governor Cuomo's defense policy. It is clear to me, by researching the governor's record on the issue, that he would be a wildcard on national defense issues.
-- Sam Nunn -
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.
-- Samuel Griswold Goodrich -
Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.
-- Samuel Rush Meyrick -
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.
-- Sarah Manguso -
Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.
-- Sarah Ruhl -
Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.
-- Saxby Chambliss -
As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.
-- Scott Turow -
I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.
-- Seishiro Itagaki -
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
-- Shimon Peres -
No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
-- Shirley Jackson -
God bless those runners because they get you the first down, give you ball control and keep your defense off the field. But if you want to ring the cash register, you have to pass.
-- Sid Gillman -
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.
-- Sloane Crosley -
I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.
-- Stephanie Klein -
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
-- Stephen L. Carter -
For the first time in Rex Ryan’s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.
-- Sterling Sharpe -
The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
-- Steve Buyer -
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
-- Steve Forbes -
Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.
-- Steve Mariucci
