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Quotes About Defense

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.
~ Conn Iggulden
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —GEORGE ORWELL
~ Conn Iggulden
Although we should hope for peace, we must be prepared for war
~ Conn Iggulden
Nothing sapped morale like the fear of being attacked from behind.
~ Conn Iggulden
but what good is thousands of years of art if you can't defend yourself?
~ Conn Iggulden
Savage .22 automatic rifle
~ Craig Johnson
A ver nire aitaren etxea defendituko dut, otsoen kontra.
~ Craig Johnson
Secret agreements between the Saudis and various U.S. presidents dated back to the early postwar era and continued into the twenty-first century. Thanks to a pact between President Harry Truman and King Ibn Saud in 1947, the United States vowed to come to Saudi Arabia's defense if it was attacked. Likewise, in 1963, President Kennedy sent a squadron of fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia when Egypt's Gamel Abdel Nasser attempted to kill members of the Saudi royal family.
~ Craig Unger
La Conspiración Vegetal: El Hombre está ahora en guardia ante los insectos parasitarios; ante tenias, termitas, escarabajos, pero ¿ha prestado alguna atención a la posibilidad de que haya sido elegido como objetivo del ataque vegetal, señalado por la viña, el lúpulo, el enebro, la planta del tabaco, la hoja de té y el grano de café para ser destruido?
~ Cyril Connolly
WewnÄ™trzny bunt jest nieraz potrzebny dla zdrowia i bywa szczególnÄ… odmianÄ… szcz??cia. To, co mo?e by? powiedziane, bywa o wiele mniej interesujÄ…ce ni? emocjonalna magia obrony wÅ'asnego sanktuarium.
~ Czes?aw Mi?osz
I find pleasure in cynicism, the habit is growing. Let it grow, it is a fine protection against the world.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We will be able to move the ball down the field with team decisions and playmaking versus constantly thinking about how the opposing forces are moving the ball.
~ Bernice King
In fact, American presidents never apologize for what America does in war, because in the American mind, all its wars are defensive, always fought from the high moral ground, always good versus evil.
~ Neil Macdonald
I've gotten better at calling out coverages, communication, and being vertical when they're attacking me in the paint.
~ Ivica Zubac
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
~ Winston Churchill
Normally, I always had a machine gun in my car and a bulletproof vest.
~ Dan Bilzerian
FYI, there are basically only three things besides a vest that will stop a bullet: a tree trunk, the engine block of a car, and a U.S. mailbox: if you are ever caught in gunfire, find one of those.
~ Asha Rangappa
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
~ Julian Assange
Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
~ Bill Shuster
In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.
~ Jennifer Granholm
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
~ Jennifer Granholm
At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.
~ Pete Hegseth
Israel has the right to defend itself, especially against the huge numbers of Iranian long-range missiles pouring into the Gaza Strip from Iran via Sudan and Egypt.
~ Ronen Bergman