Defense Quotes - Page 25

• Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

  William Godwin

  Government, Two, Community

  William Godwin (2015). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness”, p.466, Penguin UK

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• Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Military, Thinking, Law

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• Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

  Cesare Pavese

  Secret, Normal, Literature

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.117, Transaction Publishers

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• Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

  Khalil Gibran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Patriotic

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

  Cesare Pavese

  Death, Suicide, Children

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.336, Transaction Publishers

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• Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Secret

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of your force at the point where you join in battle. You can strike with the few and be many if you strike your adversary in his gaps. Seek out places where the defense is not strict, the place not tightly guarded, the generals weak, the troops disorderly, the supplies are scarce and the forces are isolated.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Battle

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• The best form of defense is attack.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, Form

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• Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Real, Educational

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Coaching, Method

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• For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Stress, Team

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• Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Coaching, Criticize

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• Defense can't guard two things in a row.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Two, Coaching

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• Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Recovery, Coaching

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• If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Art, Successful

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• As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Offense And Defense, Two

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• ...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• [T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

  Keith Olbermann

  Country, Struggle, Citizens

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• There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Obscurity, Kind

  "The Works of Joseph Addison".

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• The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.

  James Hillman

  Hero, Character, Blessing

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.37, Ballantine Books

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• Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

  Mark Twain

  Freedom, Champion, Liberty

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.405, Courier Corporation

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• Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Courtesy, Manners, Ceremony

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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