Defense Quotes - Page 10

If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."

We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel. We right now only have 276 ships, and it's not enough.

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

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

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

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

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

Innocence is its own defense.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

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.

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

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

You can never advance the ball on defense.

A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.