Defense Quotes

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. (Barry Goldwater)
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. View quote
Edward Abbey
Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. View quote
Sun Tzu
Humor is just another defense against the universe. View quote
Mel Brooks
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The aims of life are the best defense against death. View quote
Primo Levi
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. View quote
Joseph Addison
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island. View quote
William Blackstone
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. (William F. Buckley)
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. View quote
Dan Quayle
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. View quote
James Madison
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. View quote
Barry Goldwater
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country. (Malcolm X)
The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda. View quote
Edward Bernays
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression. View quote
Che Guevara