Quotes About Defense

The queen's guards might have been the best of the best, but Dimitri . . . well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.

As I'd observed, it was clear that Rose was willing to do anything and fight anyone to protect her friend. I admired that—I admired that a lot—but it didn't stop me from striking out to block her.

You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?

He loves that you love the car more than he does and thinks it's awesome you're getting so good in your defense class. Not that that's a surprise. You're always so good at everything, and you don't even realize it. You don't even realize half the things you do—like how you watch out for others and never even think about yourself.

I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.

The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.

any moment. Keep your guns handy.

The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter

An armed society is a polite society.

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

was no such thing as a "dangerous weapon," there were only dangerous men.

Angeles was safe from invasion; the invaders wouldn't find a place to park—I

if you are ever suspected of something, try to make the evidence point to a lesser offense. Never try to prove lily-white innocence. Human nature being what it is, your chances are better.

Department of Defense" ever won a war; see the histories. But it seems to be a standard civilian reaction to scream for defensive tactics as soon as they do notice a war. They then want to run the war—like a passenger trying to grab the controls away from the pilot in an emergency.

Voják pÃ…â"¢ijímá osobní odpovÄ›dnost za bezpe?nost obce, ke které pÃ…â"¢ináleží, a v pÃ…â"¢ípadÄ› nutnosti ji brání svým životem. Civilista to nedÄ›lá.

We don't begrudge money spent on roads and public health and national defense and truly useful things. But we've quit paying for parasites wherever we can identify them.

You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?" "The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.

Those who have had similar forbidden perceptions will have a certain sympathy for Mr. Devereux. I continue to maintain that Fundamentalist Materialism, like other Fundamentalisms, is, or appears within psychological models to be, a defense mechanism, and within neurological models, an editing-out device, to stave off the shock and sense of conceptual rape that causes the unsophisticated to panic when confronted with wonder about the nature of Reality.

But like they say at the Pentagon, you have to plan for the enemy's capacity, not his intentions.

If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.

If doing the crime is proof of insanity, and sanity is a defense against conviction, then the crime is its exculpation, and no one is responsible for anything.

It was the familiar "rogue agent defense" — the agents had no authority to make the promises, and therefore the promises were not legal.

The beer came and I said, "Joe, I'm thinking that there is something larger here than an attorney's zealous defense of his client." The master of understatement.

What the fuck are you doing in my house? I could've shot your ass." "Is someone in Los Angeles selling military munitions?" Talk about non sequitur. Jon