Quotes About Defense

We have to remain vigilant, and we have to continue to take the fight to the terrorist.

The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality - defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off.

When the Islamic State attacked Christian villages in the Khabur River Valley of eastern Syria in early 2015, it was our airstrikes, guided by information provided by local Christian communities, that stopped the terrorists' advance.

In most countries, the political class supervises the defense establishment and restrains its leaders from violating human rights or pursuing dangerous, aggressive policies.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

Both Russia and the United States have had their homelands attacked by violent extremists.

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

The Virginia class is an extremely successful program, and we'd like to keep it that way, and we're confident in our performance. But the Ohio replacement is a significantly larger ship.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues.

It's interesting to note that when something like a virus tries to poison us, the first thing our bodies do is heat up. We burn away the infection. Maybe that's what Earth is doing to us.

When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.

In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected.

Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

but I figured that this comment was just one of John's defenses against getting close to anybody or acknowledging his need for another human being.

Throughout the relationship Spike has ignored Buffy's denials, even though it was fairly clean that Buffy's "no" didn't mean no and ambivalent scenes such as this paved the way for the "real" violence of the attempted rape...there are strong links between love, sex, and violence, and Spike uses romantic heterosexual love as a "defense" of sexualized violence.

If we continue to reap our best, there will be no one left but children and the incompetent to defend the kingdom, The Which thought ruefully.

Our ultimate defense against giants—the best defense we have—is to lean into the all-sufficiency of Jesus.

Lewis was no fan of war, but he was unashamed to champion the beauty of the knight, of the medieval Crusader, of the "Christian in arms for the defense of a good cause.