Defense Quotes - Page 3

• That's how you win - pitching and defense.

  Derek Jeter

  Sports, Winning, Pitching

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• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, August, Years

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.168, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Taken, Character, Ideas

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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• If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

  Arlen Specter

  Country, Strong, Play

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• We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Kicking It, Buckets

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• In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

  Alan Hansen

  Winning, Brazil, World

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• The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Jobs, Justice, Doe

  "U.S. News & World Report", August 9, 1982.

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• All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

  George Wald

  War, Sides, Our Time

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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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• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Needs, Slavery, Ballots

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Revenge, War, Unjust

  "On the Republic. On the Laws".

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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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• I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell

  Believe, Minorities, Constitution

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• National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

  Jacques Chirac

  Nuclear, Weapons, Proliferation

  "Putin Bends Clinton's Ear Hoping to Halt Missile Shield". www.nytimes.com. July 22, 2000.

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• But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

  Don Nickles

  Responsibility, Government, Levels

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• The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

  David Korten

  Excess, Study, Economics

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• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  Ed Gillespie

  Moving, Self, September 11

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• In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

  Christopher Meloni

  Men, Fit, Shows

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• Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

  Robert M. Gates

  Spending

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• As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

  Steven Hatfill

  Warfare, Way, Fields

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• Right is its own defense.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Literature

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of cities: and other plays”, Grove Pr

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• The aims of life are the best defense against death.

  Primo Levi

  Death, Aim Of Life, Aim

  Primo Levi (2017). “The Drowned and the Saved”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

  Michael Ian Black

  Depression, Zero, Thinking

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Libertarian Party, Liberty

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