Defense Quotes

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

There's no defense against stupidity.

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

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

We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

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.

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

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.

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.

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.

The best defense is a good offense.

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.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

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.

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

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

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

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.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

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.

You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

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.

She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

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.'

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

The Evidence Bible is a handy tool for anyone interested in proving the reliability of Scripture, the deity of Jesus Christ, and the incredible offer of our eternal salvation. It makes the defense of Scripture easily understood and should be read by all serious Bible students.

The best form of self defense is to become invisible... If you can't do that learn Wing Chun!

The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

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.