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Quotes About Defense

We know the truth of the restored gospel. Are we ready to defend that truth? We need to live it; we need to share it.
~ Neill F. Marriott
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
~ Steve Landesberg
They all three threw up shields at the same time, Titus for Iolanthe, Iolanthe for Titus, and Lady Wintervale for them both.
~ Sherry Thomas
Knowing the same tricks a con man knows is the best way to protect yourself from him. -Naru
~ Shiho Inada
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
~ Shimon Peres
In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.
~ Shinzo Abe
Two more years of fantastic waste in the Defense Department and of penny pinching on social programs (From Voices of Multicultural America)
~ Shirley Chisholm
I believe that the war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest…. I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
~ Sigmund Freud
This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked. Redeeming social value, indeed.
~ Simon Sheppard
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
~ Simone Weil
Shield your heart from being stabbed, by giving it to no one.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
~ Sir David Attenborough
The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence as for his repose.
~ Sir Edward Coke
Within the state we have made defense of the individual the obligation of the whole community, and by that fact have established such preponderance of power on the side of the law that it could never be good business to challenge it. And that fact has, in large measure, swept highwaymen from the roads and pirates from the seas.
~ Sir Norman Angell
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.
~ Sir William Blackstone
Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.
~ John Pierrakos
I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.
~ Andruw Jones
Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.
~ Diane Ackerman
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
~ George W. Bush
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.
~ Sarah J. Maas