Defense Quotes - Page 5

• Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

  Jack Scalia

  Baby, Firefighter, Lines

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• Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

  Patrick Henry

  Real, Gun, Differences

  Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention, on June 09, 1788. "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution". Book edited by Jonathan Elliot, volume 3, p. 168-169, 1836.

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• Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Doors, Land

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  Sallust

  Running, Bravery, Risk

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• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  Malcolm X

  Self, Violence, Developmental

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Children, Father

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Peace, Children, War

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• Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

  Plutarch

  Knavery, Knaves

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "Of Bashfulness",

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• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

  James Madison

  Freedom, War, Mean

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• A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Friendship, Being Strong, Faithful

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• If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Peace, War, Crime

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• Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, Stronger, Negative

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• A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

  Frank Oz

  Knowledge, Use, Anger And Fear

  "Fictional character: Yoda". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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  For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Sight, Justice

  Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1970). “Oresteia”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

  Joe Lieberman

  Deployment, Support, Development

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• Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

  Herman Kahn

  Military, Thinking, Welfare Programs

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Water, Diversity, Citizens

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Trouble, Ends

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• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

  Joseph Addison

  Funny, Humor, Criticism

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• The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

  Winston Churchill

  Air, Enemy, Departure

  "The World Crisis". Volume I,

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• Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Lying, Thinking, Air

  Hansard 30 July 1934, col. 2339

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• Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, Aggravation, Second Amendment

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

  George Washington

  Peace, Money, Powerful

  George Washington (1837). “Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.38

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

  Ron Paul

  Self, Use, Libertarian

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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