Quotes About Defense

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

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over. At the same time, we have to be prepared.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

I've been saying for years, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time on cyber security.

The principle I believe in is the principle of protecting our nation. I believe that the United States has the right to attack any country it views as a threat at a time and place of its choosing.

When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.

America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people.

Gerard had built a most excellent fortress around himself, a fortress bristling with sharp barbs, its walls stocked with buckets of acidic comments, its high towers hidden in a cloud of dark humors, the entire fortress surrounded by a moat of sullen resentment.

Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness.  In aikido and other martial arts, we sidestep our attacker's force rather than resisting it.  The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. forgiveness works in the same way.  When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war which no one can win.

My ego mind—my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love—would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.

And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

And they want me to defend religion, and they want me to give them proofs. I just won't do it. It only confirms them in their skepticism. Because nothing true can be said a out God from a posture of defense.