Defence Quotes - Page 12

• At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

  Anne Frank

  Daddy, Able, Sticks

  Anne Frank (2001). “Diary Of A Young Girl”, p.57, Penguin Books India

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• Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Democracy, Allies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Real, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jail, India, Would Be

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Violence, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nonviolence, Property, Recklessness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Normal, Individual

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• Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

  Tony Abbott

  Responsibility, Iraq, Self

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Technology, Self

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• The spirit of sacrifice and selflessness of the defence forces is an inspiration for all Indians. Strong armed forces are necessary for an atmosphere of peace, amity, harmony and brotherhood in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Strong, Inspiration

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• A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• We are not here to give challenges to anyone, but we will also not take challenges casually. Our defence mechanisms would be the best in the world. A secure India is the first requirement for the country to progress and achieve new heights.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Giving, Challenges

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• Keeping technology at the forefront, we need to further speed up our defence programme & keep pace with the world.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Technology, India

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• We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Motivation, Self

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• My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.

  Paul Auster

  Cutting, Wife, Lines

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Criminals

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• The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Agreement, Stronger

  Lester B. Pearson (1974). “Mike: the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson”, Crown

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• The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0.7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.

  George Osborne

  Country, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the act of protecting the weak, the helpless, the imprisoned and the desperate. Love is the hand raised in defence. You cannot love and keep your hands clean.

  Patricia Duncker

  Children, Passion, Caring

  Patricia Duncker (1999). “James Miranda Barry”

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• [I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Believe, Thrones, Maintenance

  "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 147), 1971.

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• I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Country, Military, War

  "Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators". Book by Riccardo Orizio, 2003.

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• Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

  Walter Raleigh

  Sea, England, Shipping

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• Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Sea, Long, Phrases

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• Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religion, Atheism, Facts

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.452, OUP Oxford

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• For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

  John Milton

  Strong, Errors, Atheism

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