Defense Quotes - page 3

Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different. (Christopher Vokes)
To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above. View quote
Ben Bernanke
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism. View quote
Errico Malatesta
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom - because that's all dung to a soldier. View quote
David Gemmell
We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets. View quote
Tzachi Hanegbi
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves. View quote
Alfred Bester
No culture in human history ever suffered because its people became too reasonable or too desirous of having evidence in defense of their core beliefs. View quote
Sam Harris
Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs. (Murray Rothbard)
What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves. View quote
Martin Amis
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? View quote
Patrick Henry
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But 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.' View quote
Mitch Daniels
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world. View quote
Peter Jennings
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. View quote
Václav Havel
We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods - Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America. We've got the best defense, if you will - a good offense. View quote
Pat Robertson
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. View quote
Kim Il-sung
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism - a human being is exercising extremism - in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner. (Malcolm X)
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. View quote
Malcolm X
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. View quote
Malcolm X
I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today. View quote
Martha Raye
We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles. View quote
Benjamin Netanyahu