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Quotes About Defense

Is your security going after the threat? Or is the security static?" Lucas asked.
~ John Sandford
wanna lawyer.
~ John Sandford
One of the trucks he passed in the parking lot had a bumper sticker that asked, "Got Hollow Points?" Another said: "Heavily Armed . . . and easily pissed." A third one: "Point and Click . . . means you're out of ammo.
~ John Sandford
The bird came after Lucas again and he swatted at it with his gun, smacked it hard, two or three small feathers flying.
~ John Sandford
Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.
~ John Scalzi
That's the point of rumors. They're not based on anything, so nothing is very effective against them. Truth is no defense, and the people fielding these rumors know it.
~ John Scalzi
While landing a spacecraft on a planet via Skip Drive navigation was officially and strongly discouraged by the Colonial Union, the Colonial Defense Forces recognized the strategic value of sudden and unexpected arrivals.
~ John Scalzi
We're not military," Sharan said. "And I'm sure that will make a huge difference to whoever is attacking the base," Cainen said, and offered the gun to Sharan.
~ John Scalzi
And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.
~ John Steinbeck
By whipping himself he protected himself against whipping by someone else.
~ John Steinbeck
First the strangers came with argument and authority and gunpowder to back up both. And in the four hundred years Kino's people had learned only one defense - a slight slitting of the eyes and a slight tightening of the lips and a retirement. Nothing could break down this wall, and they could remain whole within the wall.
~ John Steinbeck
Don' keep ya guard up when nobody ain't sparrin' with ya.
~ John Steinbeck
The word "apologetics" comes from the Greek word apologia. It referred to what defendants would do in a courtroom in response to any accusations made against them. They would try to provide a defense (an apologia) against the charges. The accused would try to literally "speak away" (apo—away, logia—speech) the accusation(s).
~ Unknown
Nobody likes a bore on a soapbox. Humor is always the best defense and weapon. If you can make an idiot laugh, they'll at least pause and listen before they do something stupid . . . to you.
~ John Waters
Whilst wretched Man is still in Arms for fear For fear he armes, and is of Armes afraid.
~ John Wilmot
Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!
~ Stan Smith
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
~ Christopher Lasch
Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.
~ Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
~ Elizabeth Moon
if anyone comes into my domain without explicit permission, I'm going to impale you in a way that will give you the very best idea of what it feels like to be a corn dog.
~ Dannika Dark, Keystone
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
~ Thomas Paine
The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.
~ Jeff Cooper
Fear attracts attack.
~ Edwin Louis Cole