Defense Quotes

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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  A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

  James Madison

  Country, People, Liberty

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  Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  Barry Goldwater

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Gay

  Speech accepting nomination for president at Republican National Convention, San Francisco, Cal., 16 July 1964

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• There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Home

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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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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• The best defense is a good offense.

  Jack Dempsey

  Offense And Defense, Offense

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• Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Hate, Expression

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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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• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  Dan Quayle

  Sports, Winning, Knights

  David S. Broder, Bob Woodward, Dan Quayle (1992). “The man who would be president: Dan Quayle”

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• Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

  Susan Sontag

  Lying, Mean, Self

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• We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

  Tennessee Williams

  Truth, Betrayal, Betrayed

  Camino Real (1953).

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• There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Laughter, Twilight, Humor

  "The New World and the New Book, an Address, Delivered Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City, Jan. 15, 1891".

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• We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

  George Washington

  Care, Establishment, Posture

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.11

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• The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Trying, Politics

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

  Jack Scalia

  Baby, Firefighter, Lines

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• National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

  Kim Jong Il

  People, Politics, Sacred

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

  Woody Allen

  Self, Tree, Forests

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• A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Safety, Honor

  "On the Commonwealth". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 54-51 BC.

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• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• I only direct in self-defense.

  Mel Brooks

  Self, Comedy, Direct

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• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Laughter, Twilight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

  James Q. Wilson

  Power, Government

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• Murder begins where self-defense ends.

  Georg Buchner

  Self, Murder, Ends

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Self, Law, Reason

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed, 1919.

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