Defense Quotes

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

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.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

The offense sells tickets and the defense wins the games.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.

Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense.

I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense and in every other way, by the way. Every other way.

I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.