Defense Quotes - Page 17

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

We've always known that Democrats are anti-war, and we've always known that we can't really count on them when it comes to national defense. But we have finally seen with whom they will go to war: the American people who disagree with them.

If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define what official state documents other states have to recognize under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, to ensure that no state would be forced to recognize a 'same sex' marriage license issued in another state.

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that he is open to letting transgender people serve in the military. He said there's no reason to prevent people from being generals just because of their privates.

Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.

What would you do differently as defense secretary to compensate for this record in which the greatest military in the world, as we are constantly told, doesn't get the job done?

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense and in every other way, by the way. Every other way.

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.