Quotes About Defense

Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.

Largely because of a shortage of ammunition, the United States would be entirely unable to undertake major military operations for at least a year.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.

As a general principle, when an enemy's army comes, it seeks some profit. Now if they come and find the prospect of death instead, they will consider running away the most profitable thing to do. When all one's enemies consider running to be the most profitable thing to do, no blades will cross. This is the most essential point in military matters.57

threatened. As late as 1775, townsmen within twenty miles of the sea were urged to carry arms to church lest godless British raiding parties surprise them while at worship. After the service, the men left the meeting first—a regional folkway that continued long after its military origins had been forgotten.

somehow Acheson had been scarred during the McCarthy era; it was not so much that he had done anything wrong as the fact that he had been forced to defend himself. By that very defense, by all the publicity, he had become controversial. He had been in print too often, it was somehow indiscreet of Dean to be attacked by McCarthy.

The United States spends enough on 'defense' to provide every homeless American with a one-million-dollar home.

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive.

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.