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Quotes About Defense

Yet the 9mm is also one of the weaker cartridges in terms of terminal ballistics.
~ Chris McNab
The first serious steps were taken in 2004 with the Future Handgun System (FHS) program,
~ Chris McNab
Do you mean you were attacked from behind?
~ Christa Faust
Do not make the mistake of thinking that you can defend yourself against this. You can't. Just walk away. Don't try to make your case. At the end of the day, you will be judged by your behavior—not your words. Walking away is very powerful.
~ Christiane Northrup M.D.
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
~ Christopher Bond
In so far as a military force has as its aim the defeat of other military forces within a given territory it is acting to create a monopoly on organized violence — a defining feature of the state. Is it possible to create a truly anti-authoritarian military structure that corresponds with the relative decentralism of a libertarian society and that is able to defend that society from external (or internal) military threats?
~ Christopher Day
The simple fact of the matter is that wars can not be won in this way. Militias can play an important role in defending the gains of a revolution, in organizing irregular warfare within a circumscribed region, and in suppressing counter-revolutionary activity within the zone of a revolution. But without a regular army of its own the revolution can not hold back the advances of an invading army.
~ Christopher Day
Sometimes I don't think any of us really believes anything we say; we are just defending our kind.
~ Heidi Julavits
We live in a world that is ringing with the clangour of weapons. Mankind is arming on all sides, and it will go ill with a state that is unable or unwilling to rely on its own strength.
~ Heinz Guderian
the Republic was seeking to defend itself against a rebel onslaught backed by the industrial might and military muscle of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
~ Helen Graham
Juju is not enough to protect you. Everything you have I will turn against you. I'll turn sugar bitter for you. I'll take your very shield and crack it on your head.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable.
~ Helen Schucman
As the army arrived in the region, the otherwise obedient West Prussian citizens stoned the troops, denouncing the men in spiked helmets as a "Jewish defense force.
~ Helmut Walser Smith
Religion is a defensive reaction of nature against the dissolvent power of intelligence.
~ Henri Bergson
Christians alone are not allowed to say anything to clear themselves, to defend truth, to save a judge from injustice. That alone is looked for, which the public hate requires—the confession of the name, not the investigation of the charge. …
~ Henry Bettenson
We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.
~ Henry Cuellar
So we defend ourselves and our henroosts, and maintain slavery.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably
~ Henry Kissinger
The highest form of warfare Is to attack [the enemy's] Strategy itself; The next, To attack [his] Alliances. The next, To attack Armies;
~ Henry Kissinger
Both sides are reinforced in their suspicions by the military maneuvers and defense programs of the other. Even when they are "normal"—that is, composed of measures a country would reasonably take in defense of national interest as it is generally understood—they are interpreted in terms of worst-case scenarios. Each side has a responsibility for taking care lest its unilateral deployments and conduct escalate into an arms race.
~ Henry Kissinger
The United States has every reason from history and geopolitics to bolster the European Union and prevent its drifting off into a geopolitical vacuum; the United States, if separated from Europe in politics, economics, and defense, would become geopolitically an island off the shores of Eurasia, and Europe itself could turn into an appendage to the reaches of Asia and the Middle East.
~ Henry Kissinger
So long as strategic nuclear weapons were the principal element of Europe's defense, the objective of European policy was primarily psychological: to oblige the United States to treat Europe as an extension of itself in case of an emergency.
~ Henry Kissinger
I don't want to have to defend you to people who will talk shit I would do it though Always So take good care of yourself If you forget how Call me I'll remind you
~ Henry Rollins
A sin is two sins when it is defended.
~ Henry Smith