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Quotes About Defense

Why are we up here?" Mark asked. Alec pointed a finger at him. "Because it's what you do when someone comes to your house and attacks your people. You fight back. I'm not going to let these bloodsuckers get away with that crap.
~ James Dashner
Calm down, boy. We've been in a lot tougher situations than this," Alec answered. "Just find something—anything—you can get your hands on and bang away at somebody's head if they come charging.
~ James Dashner
Personal meaning must be created, not accepted, and the process of creating it requires testing and experimentation. A false self will neither test nor experiment; it is a defense against experimenting.
~ James F. Masterson
they have about forty Dassault Rafale E's, the top-of-the-line export variant of the standard French tactical fighter. This is a very bad-ass aircraft indeed, boys and girls. Good range, good sensors, good ECM, day and night, all-weather capable, and it can deliver large amounts of all kinds of very nasty ordnance with unnerving accuracy." "Vive la France," somebody down the table muttered.
~ James H. Cobb
If someone is aiming a blaster at your ally, do you raise your ligthsaber to prevent it, or do you do nothing because a Jedi isn't supposed to take aggressive action? I mean, where's the line, Jacen? We're in a war for survival , and defense sometimes means having to eliminate the opposition." -Anakin Solo
~ James Luceno
Fear is a self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by pulling back. Anger is self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by striking out.
~ James MacDonald
Men were made for war; designed to struggle and strive to protect and provide.
~ James MacDonald
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
~ James Madison
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home
~ James Madison
The character of such a government ought to secure, first, against foreign invasion; secondly, against dissensions between members of the Union, or seditions in particular States; thirdly, to procure to the several States various blessings of which an isolated situation was incapable; fourthly, it should be able to defend itself against encroachment; and fifthly, to be paramount to the State Constitutions.
~ James Madison
If there be a people on earth whose more especial duty it is to be at all times prepared to defend the rights with which they are blessed, and to surpass all others in sustaining the necessary burthens, and in submitting to sacrifices to make such preparations, it is undoubtedly the people of these states.
~ James Monroe
A 2011 study by the Pentagon found that during the ten years after 9/11, the Defense Department had given more than $400 billion to contractors who had previously been sanctioned in cases involving $1 million or more in fraud.
~ James Risen
Sin'jari didn't give her a chance to formulate a plan. He lunged at her. But years of karate training and four older brothers had honed her reflexes.
~ James Rollins
SIG Sauer P365
~ James Rollins
Sigma was started to protect and maintain the technological superiority of the United States.
~ James Rollins
The truth is often one's best shield.
~ James Rollins
Signature-based malware detection is dead. Machine learning based Artificial Intelligence is the most potent defense the next gen adversary and the mutating hash.
~ James Scott
This next president is going to inherit the most sophisticated and persistent cyber espionage cultures the world has ever seen, He needs to surround himself with experts that can expedite the allocation of potent layers of next generation defenses around our targeted critical infrastructure silos.
~ James Scott
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
~ James T. Walsh
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~ Donna Tartt
Don't hit unless you have to, but when you hit, hit hard.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Intelligence is the only indispensable commodity in life or in warfare. If you think otherwise, go live in a hut with a poet. The rest of us will do our best to defend you.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
You give me your advice, and stand by ready to rally round with your myrmidons in case there's any roughhousing.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Thus we build up a defense mechanism against self-questioning because, to tell the truth, we are very much afraid of ourselves.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers