Defense Quotes - Page 11

• And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

  William Blackstone

  Kings, Rights, Self

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• [Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

  William Blackstone

  Taken, Self, Law

  Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books : with an Analysis of the Work”, p.3

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• My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Death, Love Is, Inspire

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• Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Wisdom, Peace, Freedom

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Self, Apathy, Powerless

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• You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Blood, Hands, Chance

  "Eight Homilies Against the Jews". Book by Saint John Chrysostom (Homily 6), sourcebooks.fordham.edu.

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• We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Freedom, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.

  Che Guevara

  New York, Heart, Fighting

  London Daily Worker Interview in November 1962. "Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara" by Jorge G. Castaneda, p. 231, 1998.

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• (God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Suicide, Strong, Military

  "Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi in Favor of Suicide Operations". MEMRI TV, April 2004.

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• Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

  James A. Haught

  Book, Men, Animal

  James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”

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• The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Winning, Law, Battle

  "New trailer for The Master, which is still totally not about Scientology please don't sue us" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. August 28, 2012.

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• My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.

  Nancy Kassebaum

  Thinking, Males, Sometimes

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• ... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  War, Patriotic, Parent

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.6, University of Virginia Press

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• Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of the religious traditions of Native Americans. [Native Americans] are recognized the world over as keepers of a vital piece of the Creator's original orders, and yet they are regarded as little more than squatters at home. This book features impressive interviews, beautiful illustrations, and gives a voice to the voiceless.

  Peter Coyote

  Beautiful, Religious, Book

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• ...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Looks, Valor, Depends

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• We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Self, Solidarity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.200, Broadway Books

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• The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Army

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• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

  Ted Cruz

  Life, Leader, Needs

  "Sen. Ted Cruz says conservatives must 'fall to our knees and pray' against Supreme Court gay marriage cases". Remarks, www.foxnews.com. April 26, 2015.

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• Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

  Wendell Berry

  Rights, Justice, Violence

  "The Failure of War" by Wendell Berry, www.yesmagazine.org. November 5, 2001.

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• To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of my swords or Cutteaux of which I may be Possesed; and they are to chuse in the order they are named. These Swords are accompanied with an injuction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self defense, or in the defense of their Country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands, to the relenquishment thereof.

  George Washington

  Country, War, Fall

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• If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

  Joseph Sobran

  War, Needs, Force

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• National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  War, Guarantees, Threat

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• If I had a defense like Hal Mumme has, I would be trying them on every kickoff.

  Steve Spurrier

  Trying, Would Be, Ifs

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• I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.

  Willie Green

  Thinking, Hands, Balls

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• Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Army, Two, Russia

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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