Quotes About Defense

Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles were coming from.

If you have been brought up with attacking and trying to get to number two, number three, number four goal, not getting one goal and defend, if that's sort of the mentality that's engraved in you, it's really difficult to do the other thing.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The object is to hit the other guy and not get hit. I think the least amount of damage you can take is the best route.

We need the ball even to defend; that's our objective: having the ball and having it as far as possible from our goal as possible.

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

First and foremost my obligation is on the defensive side. But obviously there are times when I need to go and attack, too.

If you're guarding a guy like Carmelo, obviously you have to stay close to him because he can get hot.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Today those who stand, almost alone, against the Jihadis are young American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen, and Marines. We should thank God that they still volunteer to serve.

Sewaktu muda, Ka sangat meyakini bahwa tidak ada yang lebih terhormat selain mati akibat alasan politik intelektual, atau untuk membela apa yang telah ditulisnya.

The ancient bond between the tsarist state and Russian nationalism could be used to create powerful emotions when the enemy came from the heathen east. The Mongol invasion had left a powerful mark on the Russian psyche. It was expressed in a deep anxiety about the mixed Eurasian roots of the people and it's culture, which made it easy for an educated liberal to convince themselves that this war was nothing less than a defense of Russia's European identity against the Asian hordes.

because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

We do have a right to defend ourselves as best we can, and the only way we found that works is killing the buggers before they kill us.

There are times when you have to defend yourself or someone else against relentless evil. And some of those times the only defense that has any hope of succeeding is a one-time use of brutal, devastating force. At such times good people act brutally.

Going to say it anyway, said Graff. Poor fool of a boy. Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent. How many times are you lucky enough to get an enemy like that?

o poder de provocar dor é o único que conta, o poder de matar e destruir, já que, se você não puder matar, fica sempre à mercê daqueles que podem, e nada, nem ninguém, vai te salvar

Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent.

Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent. How many times are you lucky enough to get an enemy like that?

That's how war is fought, in case any of you have foolish ideas to the contrary. You don't fight with minimum force, you fight with maximum force at endurable cost. You don't just pink your enemy, you don't even bloody him, you destroy his capability to fight back. It's the strategy you use with diseases.

Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets.

I don't indulge in hypotheticals, said Achilles. Except the hypothetical charge that I plan to kill you in your sleep during the voyage back to Earth. Not my accusation, said Achilles. I was quoted in your defense. Your 'defense' is the only reason anyone heard of the accusation, said Ender.