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Quotes About Defense

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'
~ Jay Carney
As an entrepreneur, value creation will always be your first line of defense against business failure.
~ Gregory V. Diehl
We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.
~ Joshua Micah Marshall
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
~ Alfred M. Gray
We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies
~ Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself.
~ Veronica Roth
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
~ Willie Mays
The goalie is like the guy on the minefield. He discovers the mines and destroys them. If you make a mistake, somebody gets blown up.
~ Arturs Irbe
Humility is the only defence against vanity
~ Steven Aitchison
The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.
~ Huey Newton
National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.
~ Jacques Chirac
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
~ John Dryden
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
~ Alfred Rosenberg
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
~ Edward Abbey
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.
~ Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~ Edward Abbey
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.
~ David Gemmell
One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.
~ Scott Ritter
Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.
~ Charles C. Pinckney
How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.
~ Billy S. VanOrsdol
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
~ George Washington
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.
~ Kofi Annan
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
~ Carl von Clausewitz