Quotes About Defense

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. —George Orwell

None of the sheep ever wanted a sheepdog around until one of them spotted a wolf. By then, it was often too late.

As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.

there were just three categories of human beings—sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves. To those three categories, Harvath had added another—wolf hunters. That was what the world needed more of. The sheep had only two speeds—graze and stampede. They needed sheepdogs to keep them safe in case of an attack by the wolves. Wolf hunters, though, were needed to find and kill the wolves, whenever possible, before they attacked.

As the old saying went: People sleep peacefully in their beds only because rough men—and women, she was known to add—stand ready to do violence on their behalf. The two skills most necessary for a nation state to survive were its ability to keep secrets and covertly project force. Lose either ability and your country was doomed.

Without someone to hunt the wolves, the sheep would never be safe. The wolves were multiplying too quickly. The sheepdogs were being overrun.

I WAS seriously hurt because of you. Seeing you in another guy's arms, kissing him... It shredded me, Eva. Cut me open and left me bleeding. I kicked he ass in self-defense.

You put your hand on Corinne's back like this again, and I'm breaking your fingers.

Brandishing sword and pistol, and flanked by several men, she managed to be sufficiently intimidating and the attackers had been frightened away.

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

And round her house she set Such a barricade of barb and check Against mutinous weather As no mere insurgent man could hope to break With curse, fist, threat Or love, either.

We pour more money into national defense than anybody else; our defense budgets, in fact, are bigger than those in the next eleven countries combined

It's always better to attack than to defend, Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period. Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.

If you have to hit--hit low.

Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work. It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself. I never! gasped Sarra, indignant. You taught me when you were murdered in your own house, Daine said quietly.

That's Lalasa, Kel's maid. She sews and knows all sorts of ways to hurt you.

Does the military even have a position between going all out and casualty? Dr. Sloan wondered-her thoughts apparently having been following the same paths. Yes, ma'am. We in the Corps refer to that position as being in the Navy.

Switzerland is two times the size of the state of New Jersey, which has, by far, the larger population. Yet there are nearly a million men in the Swiss Army. It's a civilian army, a trained and practiced militia, ready to mobilize instantly. Each citizen serves for thirty years. But all of them, a million of them, mind, are ready to grab their rifles and be present at mobilization points and battle stations all over the country. Within twenty-four hours.

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.

And I felt antagonism for all these things when I was with La Maga, for we loved each other in a sort of dialectic of magnet and iron filings, attack and defense, handball and wall.