Defense Quotes - Page 9

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

The best defense is not to offend.

When there is no offense I make no defense.

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.