Quotes About Defense

Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

When security comes, every man for himself

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

That is the kind of beauty I was trying to get you to see," Orolo told me. "Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest.

The social structure of any nation-state is ultimately determined by its security arrangements.

The real reason the Constitution provides for the right to bear arms is defending oneself against oppressive governments, and when it comes to that, your handgun is close to useless. So (according to these guys) if you are going to assert your right to keep and bear arms you should do it openly, by packing something really big.

Even high-tech weapons systems cannot defeat organized small-arms fire on a massive scale.

protects like a stack of telephone books.

Denial is the mechanism here. And nowhere is denial more insidious than in self-denial.