Quotes About Defense

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity: General George S. Patton.

He had lots of guns, but you can't shoot germs.

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

La crítica es inútil porque pone a la otra persona en la defensiva, y por lo común hace que trate de justificarse. La crítica es peligrosa porque lastima el orgullo, tan precioso de la persona, hiere su sentido de la importancia y despierta su resentimiento.

Sarcasm is a suit of armor.

All the dead bolts and pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

How do you keep your guys safe? Coles asked. By killing everything that ain't smiling, and half of everything that is, the marine captain answered.

McCollum believed in military

Durante los primeros años después de Pearl Harbor, los Laboratorios Bell se hicieron cargo de casi mil proyectos distintos para el ejército, desde equipos de radio para tanques hasta sistemas de comunicaciones para pilotos que llevaban máscaras de oxígeno, pasando por máquinas de cifrado para codificar mensajes secretos.

Almost from the beginning of life on this planet, there's been an intense arms race between bacteria, which developed elaborate methods of defending against viruses, and the ever-evolving viruses, which sought ways to thwart those defenses.

where a party of untrained English Territorials tried to hold them with a barricade of cardboard boxes.

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion," Lincoln lectured Herndon, "and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Midway wasn't much of a place. Two tiny islands, crisscrossed by airstrips, totaled barely fifteen hundred acres on the edge of a lagoon circled by a jagged reef. But in May 1942, Midway may have been the most heavily defended acreage in the Pacific. Certainly

With regard to Europe, both the Jeffersonian neo-isolationists and the Jacksonian hawks were angry at what they saw as freeloading behavior by wealthy NATO allies like Germany who refused, as many Americans saw it, to take serious responsibility for their own defense while stiffing America on trade

Peace is an inestimable jewel; but it will be soon snatched from those who are not prepared with heart and hand to defend it.

Love vanquishes all attackers, it is impregnable in defense. When heaven wants to protect someone, does it send an army? No, it protects him with love.

I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.

If you carry a weapon, it is always to kill. Do not think it is to defend yourself. If you draw your weapon, never get closer than three meters to the person you want to kill,

For the Europeans there really is a peace dividend, because we provide the peace. They can afford social democracy without the capacity to defend themselves because they can always depend on the United States. So why not us as well? Because what for Europe is decadence--decline, in both comfort and relative safety--is for us mere denial. Europe can eat, drink and be merry for America protects her. But for America it's different. If we choose the life of ease, who stands guard for us?

There's always an Oswald. There's always the husband who takes his wife to Paris for Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day? The rest of us schlubs can barely remember to come home with a single long-stemmed rose. What does he think he's doing? And love is no defense. We don't care how much you love her--you don't do Paris. It's bad for the team.

The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, 6 million hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national suicide. For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized and constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed anti-Zionists—Iranian in particular—openly prepare a more final solution.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.