Defence Quotes

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?

Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership with Singapore, which stretches back more than two decades.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

He's caused the Chelsea defence no amount of problems.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

The first mark of valor is defence.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.

That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.