Defense Quotes - Page 2

• I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Important, Islam

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• The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

  Michael Chertoff

  Years, Department

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• It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

  Joe Garagiola

  Inspirational, Motivational, Winning

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• Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

  Louise Slaughter

  Jobs, Military, Training

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• The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Children, Mean, Enemy

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• My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Jobs, Military, Giving

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• Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

  Khalil Gibran

  Time, Self, Stronger

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• The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

  Charles Bass

  Energy, Program, Committees

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• A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Funeral, Eulogy, Belated

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• The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

  Richard Neal

  Effort, Prevention, Lines

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• My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Ambition, Order

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• Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Literature, Virtue, Modern

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• I always root for the defense.

  Wellington Mara

  Roots

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• But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Play, Concerned, Stills

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• Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

  Ken Salazar

  Jobs, Play, Identity

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• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  Ida B. Wells

  Gun, Self, Afros

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.71, Penguin

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• We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

  Jim Talent

  Army, Needs, Size

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• My last defense / Is the present tense.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Live In The Moment, Lasts, Moments

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.81, Library of America

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• The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

  George Pataki

  War, Pregnancy, Israel

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• So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Successful, Position

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• There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Pride, Skillful

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• If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Prison, Should, Make Sense

  "A Lawyer's Life".

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• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  Ida B. Wells

  Men, Lynching, Bravery

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• Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

  Adam Smith

  Nature, Hate, Justice

  Adam Smith (1948). “Adam Smith's moral and political philosophy”

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• We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

  George Wald

  Life, War, Science

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