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Quotes About Defense

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.
~ Don Herold
He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.
~ Chris Cannon
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
~ Aeschylus
The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.
~ Barack Obama
I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.
~ Charlaine Harris
Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.
~ Curt Gowdy
No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
~ Daniel Webster
A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.
~ Gail Carriger
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
To me, defense is a mental attitude it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.
~ Michael Finley
When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
You're a dead man," Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me.
~ Patricia Briggs
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
~ Paul Elmer More
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
~ Henry David Thoreau
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.
~ Herman Melville
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.
~ John F. Kerry
Adron! Don't you hurt him. (Kiara) I'm not going to hurt him, Mom. I'm going to kill him. (Young Adron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.
~ Marco Rubio
Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is real ammunition.
~ David Petraeus
I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."
~ Lynne Stewart