Defense Quotes

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.

When there is no offense I make no defense.

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

I think there's a lot of different things that factor into playing good defense, and you just can't say, "All right, if we just hold on to the ball long enough, we're going to play good defense."

I've still never gotten behind the defense and been caught.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

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.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

The best defense is not to offend.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.