Quotes About Defense

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

Si vis pacem, para bellum," Gray

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

Turns out a missile is always a weapon, and a rocket sometimes isn't.

Faced with an inconvenient history, the first defense is silence.

She double knotted the cord of her dressing gown. "I want to marry someone who will defend me from criticism. Who won't be ashamed of me.

Toate starile extreme sunt derivate ale vietii prin care ea se apara de ea insasi.

What is an argument for the defense that neither torments nor troubles — what is a eulogy that fails to kill? Every apology should be a murder by enthusiasm.

We all believe in many more things than we think, we harbour intolerances, we cherish bloody prejudices, and, defending our ideas with extreme means, we travel the world like ambulatory and irrefragable fortresses. Each of us is a supreme dogma to himself; no theology protects its god as we protect our self; and if we assail this self with doubts and call it into question, we do so only be a pseudo-elegance of our pride: the case is already won.

I felt as if I were a goalie preventing the pucks of negativity from scoring.

Know your enemy as though you are planning for an invasion; determine when and where they are likely to attack and be ready to refute their messages.

Some people have a pattern of getting exhausted to cover up resentment—or one of grouchiness to cover up fear.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

To the two men it seemed that the government and capital of France were left without means of defense and unable to command any. Only one resource was left - Gallieni.

servile degree." The object of the noble's function, in theory, was not fighting for fighting's sake, but defense of the two other estates and the maintenance of justice and order. He was supposed to protect the people from oppression, to combat tyranny, and to cultivate virtue—that is, the higher qualities of humanity of which the mud-stained ignorant peasant was considered incapable by his contemporaries in Christianity, if not by its founder.

Give me an army of three active corps and I will agree to become Governor of Paris; on this condition, formal and explicit, you can count on me for its defense." Messimy thanked him so effusively, "shaking my hands several times and even kissing me," that Gallieni felt assured "from the warmth of these demonstrations that the place I was succeeding to was not an enviable one.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And… moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test every time I step into the batter's box: Can I do better than the last time? And that's why I love it.