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Quotes About Defense

The more passionate the defensive response, the more deeply self-worth has been threatened.
~ Gary Chapman
Ozai: What I'm saying is this -- There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide, who you choose to defend deserves to be defended simply because
~ Gene Luen Yang
You claim the right to prosecute me in accordance with your laws, the laws of Dorp, about which I know nothing. I claim the right to defend myself by the only law I know, the law of reason. Reason demands an impartial judge, and that I be given the advice of someone who knows your law.
~ Gene Wolfe
A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If I had been in charge of reorganizing the government's security agencies into a homeland defense organization, I would have divided the responsibilities into two agencies: The Bureau of What the Fuck Was That? and The Department of What the Fuck Are We Gonna Do Now?
~ George Carlin
Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.
~ George Eliot
The uncontested core of security is providing protection through strength. But
~ George Lakoff
As we pointed out, the common principles of conservative thought make up a list crying out for an explanation of how they fit together: smaller government; strong defense; lower taxes; traditional family values; personal responsibility; and free markets. As we have seen, these all flow from a strict father morality. Finally
~ George Lakoff
the lawsuits weren't frivolous," you talk instead about public protection, about open courts, about the right to have juries decide, and about the last line of defense against unscrupulous or negligent corporations
~ George Lakoff
Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
~ Patricia Ireland
Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
~ Ron Paul
I will work hard at the federal level to defend our progress on climate change, but we know that forward progress on climate must happen locally.
~ Brad Schneider
People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
~ Hannah Simone
The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
~ Rachel Maddow
Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.
~ Anthony Albanese
Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.
~ Michelle Alexander
The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.
~ Michael Mullen
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
~ Barbara Kruger
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.
~ Theodore C. Sorensen
Our growing national debt is a threat to our national defense and to our domestic priorities, including research and development, education, health care, and investments in our economic growth.
~ Seth Moulton
I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.
~ Jim Ryun
Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.
~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers