Defense Quotes - Page 11

My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia's role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

I don't have to run from none of these fighters. If I want to keep my defense tight and break em' down I can.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Under Obama-Clinton, our ballistic missile defense capability has been degraded at the very moment in the United States history and its allies we are facing the strongest, most heightened missile threat that we have ever, ever had.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.