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Quotes About Defense

I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.
~ Gaspar Noe
It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.
~ George W. Bush
That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.
~ Ron Atkinson
Trump wants a team of fighters. He wants a team of people that understand what they're up against and who's out to get them, to stop them, to destroy them, to impede them or what have you.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.
~ Sarah Palin
I think the most important thing is to, without belligerence, stand up for what want. Argue compellingly if someone tries to change your script.
~ Shane Black
God wants someone to defend him.
~ Shane Harper
I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
And she's my fiancee. So if you want to get to him, expect to go through both of us.
~ Suzanne Collins
What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.
~ Terry Pratchett
Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.
~ Terry Rozier
In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.
~ Tim Cook
I'm having to protect myself. How do you protect your heart and cover everything? When you don't want to look people in the eye and you're constantly dodging, I fall into it.
~ Tobias Segal
Our country deserves no less, because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.
~ Hillary Clinton
I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
~ Holly Black
I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.
~ Pink
If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.
~ Zoroaster
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.
~ Lester B. Pearson
The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.
~ Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!
~ Joseph Stalin
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
~ Smedley Butler