Defense Quotes - Page 16

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

I still have things to learn, especially on defense.

When you are totally defenseless, that's when you'll be strong.

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.