Defense Quotes

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.

The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.

Defense is superior to opulence.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

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.

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.

I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

I like to think I'm just talkin' in my defense.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

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.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.