Quotes and Sayings About Defense
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
-- Adam Smith -
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
-- Adolf GallandSource : Adolf Galland (1954). “The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1954”
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Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
-- Al Attles -
They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.
-- Al Davis -
Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
-- Alan Cranston -
In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
-- Alan Hansen -
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As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
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no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There‟s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.
-- Alfred Bester -
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.
-- Alfred de Musset -
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
-- Alice Miller -
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The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.
-- Andrew BogutSource : Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.
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Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.
-- Andy Van Slyke -
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.
-- Ani DiFranco -
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We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.
-- Anna Lindh -
You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
-- Astrid Lindgren -
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
-- Ayn Rand -
I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.
-- Barack Obama -
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice
-- Barry Goldwater -
There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
-- Barry Goldwater -
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
-- Barry ZitoSource : "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Tyler Bleszinski, www.athleticsnation.com. March 29, 2005.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
-- Bashar al-Assad