Defense Quotes - Page 2

• The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

  Michael Chertoff

  Years, Department

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• All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

  William Kristol

  Made, Wartime, Secretary

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• Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Adequate, Century, Has Beens

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• The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

  Louise Slaughter

  Jobs, Care, Victim

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• Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

  Louise Slaughter

  Jobs, Military, Training

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• Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

  Khalil Gibran

  Time, Self, Stronger

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• There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Pride, Skillful

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• But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Play, Concerned, Stills

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• The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

  George Pataki

  War, Pregnancy, Israel

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• My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Ambition, Order

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• My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Jobs, Military, Giving

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• Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

  Ken Salazar

  Jobs, Play, Identity

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• A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Funeral, Eulogy, Belated

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• If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Prison, Should, Make Sense

  "A Lawyer's Life".

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• We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

  Jim Talent

  Army, Needs, Size

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• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  Ida B. Wells

  Gun, Self, Afros

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.71, Penguin

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• The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

  Charles Bass

  Energy, Program, Committees

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• The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

  Richard Neal

  Effort, Prevention, Lines

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• I always root for the defense.

  Wellington Mara

  Roots

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• So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Successful, Position

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• Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Literature, Virtue, Modern

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• My last defense / Is the present tense.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Live In The Moment, Lasts, Moments

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.81, Library of America

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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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• 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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