Defense Quotes - Page 5

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.

Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they surrender - surrender their defenses, their hostilities. And once you make an audience laugh, they're with you. And they listen to you if you've got something to say. I have a theory that if you can make them laugh, they're your friends.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did not have any medals to throw away, but in his defense he did have all his services records thrown out.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.