Defense Quotes - Page 30

• Ronald Reagans vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

  David Vitter

  Confidence, Strong, Military

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• I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

  Melody Beattie

  Hurt, People, Saws

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.4, Hazelden Publishing

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• I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.

  Eli Manning

  Jobs, Smart, Moving

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• This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

  Ken Kesey

  Wise, Strong, Law

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

  George W. Bush

  Military, War, Winning

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• Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

  David Gelernter

  Technology, Simplicity, Important

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• What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• Good basketball always starts with good defense!

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Good Basketball

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• Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Kids, Nba

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• I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Talking, Nba

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• Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Winning, Nba

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• My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Philosophy, Nba

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• Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Men, Nba

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• Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• There has never been a great 'silent' defense

  Del Harris

  Basketball, Nba, Silent

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• It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes

  Maury John

  Basketball, Fun, Mistake

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• Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense

  Tates Locke

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Self, People

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• From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for.

  Jo Labadie

  Views, Opposites, Deeds

  "Anarchism and Crime" by Joseph Labadie, 1932.

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• I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

  Murray Rothbard

  Rights, Focus, Taxation

  "Society Without A State". The Libertarian Forum, 1975.

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• The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything else, no matter how noble the cause, it becomes perverted and justice is weakened. Thus, the law has become perverted by stupid greed and false philanthropy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Stupid, Law, Organization

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• Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Tyrants, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, August, Two

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• Defense is the first act of war.

  Byron Katie

  War, Stay Calm, Firsts

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2011

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