Quotes About Defense

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

the destroyers that formed the outer picket line.

The lack of attention given to anti-submarine warfare is surprising as all five Washington navies were convinced, following the devastating U-boat campaign of 1917–18, that the submarine had now 'come of age' and was a threat to be taken seriously.

he should be remembered as the first pope in history to undertake an active defense of the Jewish people, wherever they might be found.

My thinking was this: Just because you're out to curb some of the ridiculous costs doesn't mean you're out to weaken the nation's defense.

Belief is an odd thing for a defense counsel, Tommy. It is not necessary to believe in your client to defend him. Some would say that it is easier to not truly have an opinion, that the maneuverings of the law are only clouded by the emotions of trust and honesty. But

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

the state of war once begun, continues with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace

Semiautomatic weapons are also used to protect people and save lives. Single-shot rifles that require reloading by hand may not do people a lot of good when they are facing multiple criminals. The first shot may also miss or fail to stop an attacker. People wanting to protect themselves and their families might not have the luxury of time to reload their guns.

police explain that the job of protecting people is their own,

There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard.

People lose their way as an act of defence. Then they panic and decide they have to find it again.

A free society's best defence against unethical behaviour modification is public disclosure and awareness.

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Sparing Putin any serious penalty for his assault on our democracy doesn't just encourage further aggression, it tells the victims and potential victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine and Georgia, the Baltics, Poland, Moldova, and Montenegro, and in Russia itself, that the United States, the greatest power in the world, couldn't be relied on to defend its own democracy.

RINO, Republican in Name Only. I'm a Reagan Republican, a proponent of lower taxes, less government, free markets, free trade, defense readiness, and democratic internationalism. I also believe government should respond to our biggest problems and prepare for our biggest future challenges, be as transparent as possible and as efficient as possible.

Was it different if you went in knowing you had made the decision to kill? Was it different if you did it in self-defense? In defense of another? In defense of a species?

You let your guard down to one person, pretty soon other people started creeping in over the razor wire and around the force fields, too. And then they inevitably hurt you, and what might have been a few chips and dents of your deflectors were working turned, instead into a full-sledged meteor storm, leaving behind cracked bones and big meaty gauges.

Lucifer was laughing, defending himself delightedly from the slender light wrapped figure who pressed him only tentatively.

Admit nothing. An iron dignity is an unbroachable defense.

We observe small rites, but we defend ourselves against that terrible memory that is stronger than will. We defend ourselves from the rooms, the scenes, the objects that make for hallucination, that make the senses start up and fasten upon a ghost. We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.