Defense Quotes - page 2

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. (Sallust)
I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense. View quote
Sherman Alexie
Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. View quote
Garry Shandling
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. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit. View quote
Christopher Meloni
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. View quote
Roger Wicker
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. View quote
Russ Carnahan
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care. (Sue Kelly)
When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win. View quote
Sue Wicks
Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher. View quote
Peter Agre
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil. View quote
Ayn Rand
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. View quote
Ayn Rand
The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real. View quote
Edward Snowden
In other words, 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. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters. (Colin Powell)
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. View quote
Paulo Freire
We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
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. View quote
Moshe Dayan
The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money. View quote
Ambrose Bierce