Defense Quotes

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

There's no defense against stupidity.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.

Your mind-set is your primary weapon

The best defense is a good offense.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.