Defense Quotes

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Uplifting, Spiritual

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

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  A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

  James Madison

  Country, People, Liberty

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  Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  Barry Goldwater

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Gay

  Speech accepting nomination for president at Republican National Convention, San Francisco, Cal., 16 July 1964

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• Believe, it is our best defense.

  Obert Skye

  Believe

  Obert Skye (2009). “The Wrath of Ezra”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth is the best defense.

  Ward Churchill

  Truth Is

  Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.23, City Lights Books

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• Innocence is its own defense.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Innocence

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

  Edward Abbey

  Ideas, Environmental, Needs

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• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Jobs, Effort

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

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• Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.

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• Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pregnancy, Self, Courageous

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.815, Open Road Media

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• Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Doe, Opponents

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.88, Tuttle Publishing

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• Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

  John Dryden

  Gun, Self, Law

  John Dryden (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

  George Wald

  Twelve, Gross, Cents

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• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  Barry Zito

  Sports, League, Bigs

  "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Tyler Bleszinski, www.athleticsnation.com. March 29, 2005.

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• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Agreement, Logical

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• The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Children, Mean, Enemy

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• It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

  Joe Garagiola

  Inspirational, Motivational, Winning

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• The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

  Robin Hayes

  Communication, Government, Research

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• I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Important, Islam

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• If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

  John Madden

  Team, Bad Day, Nfl

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• But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Way, Language

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• In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

  Loretta Young

  Self, Silence, Littles

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• In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  J. L. Austin

  Responsibility, Reality, Accepting

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• War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

  Bill Moyers

  War, Self, Imagination

  Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.224, Anchor

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• When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Self, Fleeing, Execution

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