Defense Quotes - Page 31

• America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

  Robin Sloan

  America, Google, Aircraft Carriers

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

  Ice T

  Brother, Betrayal, Dirty

  Ice-T, Douglas Century (2011). “Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood”, p.163, One World

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• Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

  Widad Akrawi

  Opportunity, People, Mind

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• I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hurt, Believe, Feelings

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• Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Gun, Men

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• The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Conservative, Common

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.456

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• Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.

  Joe Bastianich

  Blood, Lines, Pressure

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• Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.

  Ken Macha

  Impact, Play, Hunters

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• I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

  Jim Garrison

  Satisfaction, Sides, Clients

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• The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Bob, Campaigns, Notable

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• Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Order, Law

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.384, Princeton University Press

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• I don't have to run from none of these fighters. If I want to keep my defense tight and break em' down I can.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Running, Motivation, Ems

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• The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said without reference to color or condition, ad infinitum.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Blessing, Order

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• The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence or defense; for the redress of grievances or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.

  Joseph Story

  Strong, Rights, Government

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the constitution of the United States”, p.357

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• The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Justice, Liberty

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• What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Men, Doors

  "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln" by Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 5, (pp. 6-7), 2004.

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• We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, War, Loss

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• Two big punchers, you've got to keep your chin down, keep your defense up, don't be careless or open, box sensibly, control the centre of the ring and when he lets his punches go, believe me he's gonna know all about it.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Believe, Two

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• Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Media, States

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• Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

  William Kristol

  Civilization, Patriotism, Weapons

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• Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

  Bent Larsen

  Small Numbers, Games, Play

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• Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

  Roger Wicker

  Business, Technology, Aerospace

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• To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that conservatism is simply a political argument in defense of large accumulations of private property, that expansion, centralization, and accumulation are the tenets of conservatives. From this confusion, from the popular belief that Hamilton was the founder of American conservatism, the forces of tradition in the United States never have fully escaped.

  Russell Kirk

  America, Confusion, Political

  Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”

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• Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

  David Robinson

  Basketball, What Matters, Interest

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• People don’t like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they’ve accepted whatever truth is embedded in your humor.

  Paul Krassner

  Humor, People, Laughing

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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