Defense Quotes - Page 34

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

Elizabeth Warren

School, Israel, Self

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Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we need to study small-unit tactics... If you do not have 5,000 rounds of .223, 5,000 rounds of .22 and 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo, as a MINIMUM, you're wrong. We need to train our families how to shoot as well. We need to get food. We need to have a year's supply of food, two years supply of seeds, we need to have a year's supply of sundry items. That's what it means to be an American. We prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

Matt Shea

Inspiring, Mean, Years

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I would turn the question around to people, especially those reporters who wrote some of those articles. Are you advocating our daughters shouldn't learn self-defense? Because that's what was taught at that rally.

Matt Shea

Inspiring, Daughter, Self

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The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

Ayn Rand

Mean, Men, Rights

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.812, Hamilton Books

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Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.

David Ben-Gurion

Country, Israel, People

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Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

John Foster Dulles

Land, Important, World

John Foster Dulles (1954). “Evolution of Foreign Policy: Text of Speech by John Foster Dulles Secretary of State Before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y., January 12, 1954”

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As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

Tim Conway

Sports, Kids, Thinking

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Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Bennie Thompson

Education, Drug, Quality

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When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.

Sue Wicks

Winning, Games, Play

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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Elizabeth Moon

Real, Past, People

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We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic acts? I challenge you to name one...Do we need to wait until our cities lie in smoking ruins before we wake up to the fact that a first-class public library is a vital link in national defense?

Garrison Keillor

War, Lying, Book

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Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Marcus Aurelius

Passion, Men, Mind

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1956). “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

Rick Scott

Government, Self, Law

"Gov. Rick Scott rejects request to ban concealed weapons outside GOP convention in Tampa", www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2012.

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Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease.

Ronald Reagan

New Year, Strong, Years

Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bill Delahunt

Rights, Uzbekistan, Decision

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A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

P. J. O'Rourke

Needs, Serious, Goofy

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth.

David Jeremiah

God, Christian, Spiritual

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The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Blaise Pascal

Ignorance, Math, Logic

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Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Monica Raymund

Lying, Coping Mechanisms, Survival

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Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured.

Sun Tzu

Leadership, Sports, Warrior

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In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ideas, Analysis, Lasts

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My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

Mike Tyson

Style, Impetuous

"'I was ferocious': Mike Tyson talks candidly about his darkest hour". www.today.com. November 12, 2013.

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In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Moshe Dayan

Should Have, Two, Roles

Private conversation with Rami Tal (1976), as quoted in Associated Press report, May 11, 1997.

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Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

Antonio Negri

Punishment, Doe, Prison

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Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

Sarah Ruhl

Aesthetic

Sarah Ruhl (2014). “100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater”, p.56, Macmillan

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