Quotes About Defense

You can hide in someone else's rage - it blinds them

Surely you must understand that the means are no less important than the ends. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.

Se non impugno una spada non posso difenderti, se impugno una spada non posso abbracciarti. - Sado Yasutora Chad

Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

anyone who knew anything about military science could have seen it coming, because the tiny nation of Estonia had focused on diplomacy, not on its physical defense. Edgar Nõlvak had seen it coming, not because he was a soldier or a politician—he was a schoolteacher—but he had seen it coming because he watched television.

level attacks. Their primary

What will our Defense Minister do when it becomes obvious even to him that we have failed? Have you considered that? When desperate men realize they have failed—and those desperate men have control of atomic weapons, then what?

attack was coming. The

For a thousand years, without an army or a navy, Iceland had never been attacked.

the 'protective' part seriously, 'kay?" John

we have a debt of honor to the people on those islands who decided that they wanted to be Americans. If we don't defend that principle, we don't defend anything. And nobody will trust us, and nobody will respect us, not even ourselves. If we turn our back on them, then we are not the people we say we are, and everything we've ever done is a lie.

Submariners lived by a simple motto: There are two kinds of ships, submarines . . . and targets.

As a result, no nation-state today dared even to contemplate an attack on America.

This is how I see humanity. When enemies come to your country, destroy the countryside and your village, kill your countrymen, your comrades and the defenseless wounded, you have to kill them and defend your compatriots; that is true humanity.

Croom He insists on it, and finds the proof of his wife's virtue in his eagerness to defend it.

so you protected yourself and loved small

We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject to careful analysis; we had become headstrong, devious, and arrogant. Nobody paid us any attention, so we paid very good attention to ourselves. Our limitations were not known to us—not then.

Her heavy knives of defense against misery, regret, gall and hurt, she placed one by one on a bank where dear water rushed on below.

But you said there was no defense. There ain't. Then what do I do? Know it, and go on out the yard. Go on.

Didn't everything on God's earth have or acquire defense?

Didn't everything on God's earth have or acquire defense? Speed, some poison in the leaf, the tongue, the tail? A mask, flight, numbers in the millions producing numbers in the millions. A thorn here, a spike there.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

The priorities of the traditional state were defense, public order, the prevention of epidemics and the aversion of mass discontent. But following World War II, and peaking around 1980, social expenditure became the main budgetary responsibility for modern states.