Quotes About Defense

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

I think war is a dangerous place.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Everything belongs to the fatherland when the fatherland is in danger.

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs-to kill people and to destroy the works of man.

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men have abundant opportunity today to learn what can be said against Christianity, and it is only fair that they should also learn something about the thing that is being attacked.

When we get him," Eve continued, "it's going to come out that she—this symbol—knocked him around or boo-hoo broke his heart or made him feel weak and helpless. So his defense lawyers will come along saying: Oh, he was damaged, poor sick son of a bitch. He's not responsible. And that's a pile of shit, that's a big, smelly pile of bullshit. Because nobody's responsible for choking the life out of Elisa Maplewood but him. Nobody.