Quotes About Defense

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I.

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

For the first time in Rex Ryan's career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.

I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him.

In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against us.

Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.

We all create stories to protect ourselves

W]henever we heard an unflattering portrait of our own side our first question to ourselves was not "Is this true?" but "What are they trying to hide about themselves by accusing us of this?" Once this mental defense system had been perfected, few criticisms could hit home.

You will sustain your rage, using time as a defense against fear and indolence. In the great stash of defenses, time is the one least imaginative.

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

Frightened people often hide behind anger.

What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.

HALE, to Parris, trying to contain himself: Is every defense an attack upon the court? Can no one—?

There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.

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