Defence Quotes - Page 7

• Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Might, Helping

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

  John Boyne

  Book, Self, Way

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• Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Scythes

  William Shakespeare, D. BARNSTORFF, T. J. GRAHAM (Translator.) (1862). “A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]”, p.36

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• By how much unexpected, by so much
  We must awake endeavour for defence;
  For courage mounteth with occasion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Unexpected, Endeavour

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.32, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Nurse, Grace

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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• I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the national defence...The facts, which from our own experience forbid a reliance of this kind, are too recent to permit us to be the dupes of such a suggestion.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, People, Suggestions

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

  Rosalind Russell

  Lines, Behinds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you've just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper you're the last line of defence. When a goal goes in everyone looks at you, you've got to be able to deal with that. If you make a mistake, it could be a bad mistake, how are you going to recover? Are you going to react positively or are you just going to cave in?

  David Seaman

  Mistake, Goal, Looks

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• Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

  Henry Spira

  Suffering, Systematic, Intense

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• Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

  Agatha Christie

  Bars, Prisoner

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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• There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

  Agatha Christie

  Reproach, Conscience

  Agatha Christie (1986). “And then there were none”, Pocket

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• Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Daughter, Mother, Running

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Dec 12, 2016

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• In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.

  Alan Keyes

  Military, Mean, People

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• The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better
  appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as
  are required to prevent the country from breaking up

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Appreciation, Community

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• The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

  Doc Hayes

  Basketball, Team, Hotel Lobby

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• The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

  John C. Calhoun

  War, Liberty, Slavery

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• Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Organization, Doe

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• I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.

  Joe Slovo

  Thinking, Community, Judgement

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• You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

  William Hague

  Stress, Important, Guarantees

  Interview with James Landale, news.bbc.co.uk. July 24, 2011.

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• We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.

  Valery Giscard d'Estaing

  Europe, Justice, Half

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• It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

  Earl Warren

  Inspirational, Names, Ironic

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• If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technology, Thinking, Wish

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• A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dream, Nuclear, World

  Margaret Thatcher's Speech at a Soviet Official banquet, St George's Halls, the Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack – never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.

  Rinus Michels

  Art, Team, Player

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