Defense Quotes - Page 26

• I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Freedom, Believe

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• [Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Art, Divorce

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• The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

  John Calvin

  Angel, Exercise, Safety

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• Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Crazy, Heart

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• We would love to have Gary down here. He's still tenacious on defense, and I know he still wants [a title]. And I'm the only guy in the world who can get him one.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Guy

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• Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Boss, United States

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Thinking, Want

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• Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Mean, Yeah

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• Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Winning, Games

  Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

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• The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

  George H. W. Bush

  People, Pork, Want

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• You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. Therefore, that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Safety, Doe

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• And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.

  Samuel Adams

  Army, Rights, People

  Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.

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• If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Baby, Children

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by Malcolm X edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Lying, Victory

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.74, Adams Media

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• Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Commitment, Abortion

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• I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Home, Gun

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• Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gun, Self, Use

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Gun, Rights

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

  Charley Reese

  Country, Gun, Government

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• By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Father, Military

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• If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

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• That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

  Jim Harrison

  World, Crafts, Sentences

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor...Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with...dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.

  Saddam Hussein

  Children, Military, War

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• If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Inspirational, Writing, Men

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• Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Games, Soul, Chess

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