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Quotes About Defense

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.
~ Jim Mattis
Sean Sweeney is a defensive guy that did a great job with Milwaukee.
~ Dwane Casey
If you're athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It's a mindset.
~ Andrew Wiggins
I really wanted to step up my defense night in, night out. So that's my mindset, just playing defense and trying to be consistent with that.
~ Jamal Murray
This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.
~ Avery Bradley
Ever since I was defense minister, I have participated in global meetings on the issue of climate and security.
~ Ali Bongo Ondimba
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
~ Shimon Peres
Obviously, defence is very sensitive and very challenging ministry.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
I've been defending myself since I left Minnesota. Because I didn't comply to what they wanted, then it was like, 'Oh, I'm selfish. I'm this. I'm that.' I'm like, 'How can that be? You were just about to give me $71 million! Who gives someone $71 million, and they're selfish, and they're jealous of Kevin Garnett and all of this stupid stuff?'
~ Stephon Marbury
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
~ Rand Paul
Nuclear weapons can do it quickly. That makes a difference.
~ Thomas C. Schelling
For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificiall Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which, the Soveraignty is an Artificiall Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body;
~ Thomas Hobbes
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as farre-forth, as for Peace, and defence of himselfe he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himselfe.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Modern governments actually spend relatively little on programs and systems that benefit all citizens, such as national defense or the judicial system; mainly they are concerned with infringing on the property rights of one (less politically powerful) group of citizens for the benefit of another (more politically powerful) group.
~ Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
~ Thomas Jefferson
we declared that an attack on any one colony should be considered as an attack on the whole. This
~ Thomas Jefferson
Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute.
~ Thomas Jefferson
armament has been ordered at Brest
~ Thomas Jefferson
Ich wiederhole: Der Fortschritt hat alles für sich. Nur scheinbar ist er die Opposition. Der erhaltende Gegenwille ist es, der in Wahrheit immer und überall die Opposition bildet, der sich in der Verteidigung befindet und zwar in einer, wie er genau weiss, aussichtslosen Verteidigung.
~ Thomas Mann
Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.
~ Thomas Pynchon
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
~ Thomas Sowell
When we're misunderstood and judged unfavorably, what good does it do to defend or explain ourselves?
~ Kathryn Harrison
No elf could withstand such pain and not instinctively call forth his own magic in defense. Again you've proven how truly weak you are… and yet…" Dominic
~ Kathryne Kennedy