Defense Quotes - Page 7

• I only direct in self-defense.

  Mel Brooks

  Self, Comedy, Direct

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• A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Betrayal

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, War, Home

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Principles, Target

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• Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mean, Law, Justice

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• Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

  Norm Dicks

  Years, Aggravation, Design

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• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Self, Law, Reason

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed, 1919.

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• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Laughter, Twilight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

  James Q. Wilson

  Power, Government

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• Murder begins where self-defense ends.

  Georg Buchner

  Self, Murder, Ends

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Laughter, Twilight, Humor

  "The New World and the New Book, an Address, Delivered Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City, Jan. 15, 1891".

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• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  Dan Quayle

  Sports, Winning, Knights

  David S. Broder, Bob Woodward, Dan Quayle (1992). “The man who would be president: Dan Quayle”

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• Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

  Susan Sontag

  Lying, Mean, Self

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• We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

  Tennessee Williams

  Truth, Betrayal, Betrayed

  Camino Real (1953).

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• We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

  George Washington

  Care, Establishment, Posture

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.11

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• National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

  Kim Jong Il

  People, Politics, Sacred

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

  Woody Allen

  Self, Tree, Forests

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• A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Safety, Honor

  "On the Commonwealth". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 54-51 BC.

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• By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Government, People, Citizens

  Ezra Taft Benson (1986). “The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner”, Shadow Mountain

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• Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

  Martin Heinrich

  Moon, Technology, America

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• We want to represent all the French people with ideas that are neither left nor right: patriotism, defense of the identity and sovereignty of the people. If a person like me is described as being extreme-left and extreme-right at the same time, then that isn't far off the mark.

  Marine Le Pen

  Ideas, People, Identity

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• The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

  Vladimir Putin

  Anxiety, Ministry, Development

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• If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Cutting, Enough, Budgets

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