Defense Quotes - Page 33

• To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Taken, Intelligent, Self

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• In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder - is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Self, Law, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.14, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Self-defense is a part of the law of nature;
  nor can it be denied the community,
  even against the king himself.

  William Barclay

  Kings, Equality, Self

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• We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Blessing, Order, America

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• Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

  Mark Batterson

  Criticism, Nine, Criticize

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• In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do they furnish their children with arguments for the defense of that faith? ...it is not surprising to see them abandon a position which they are unable to defend.

  William Wilberforce

  Children, Parent, Infidelity

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• A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.

  Don Kates

  Life, Self, Cost

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• National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in May 1981, then his 'Evil Empire' speech of March 1983 - who most eloquently declared communism's imminent demise. Reagan was right. And even Soviet officials attribute Ronald Reagan's rhetoric and foreign policy to bringing down that 'evil empire.' By Christmas Day, 1990, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Liberals wished it were other things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Usa, Evil

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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. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.

  David Gelernter

  Beautiful, Learning, Winning

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• There is no such thing as a successful defense.

  George S. Patton

  Sports, Successful, Psychology

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• The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted.

  Gilbert Murray

  Sports, Fighting, Men

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• The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.

  Enver Hoxha

  Country, Party, Fire

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• We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.

  Anna Lindh

  India And Pakistan, President, Nuclear

  Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 56, www.acronym.org.uk. April 2001.

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• A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fall, Mean, Self

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• Colonel John Alexander was an original member of the Earth Battalion and served in many interesting paranormal scouting efforts. Eventually he headed up the non-lethal weapons world for the Army. He continues to be a trusted thinker and solid communicator to the Defense world about many of the gifts created by the members of this circle of pioneers. Thanks for this outstanding coverage of much of the Battalions near legendary works.

  Jim Channon

  Army, Circles, Interesting

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• It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

  John Hersey

  Children, Fall, Vision

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

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• Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

  Roger Wicker

  Mean, Agency, Law

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• I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

  Rick Larsen

  People, Track, Legacy

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• As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.

  Doc Hastings

  Strong Women, Past, Long

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• We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

  Joe Lieberman

  Strong Women, Military, Technology

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• The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian

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• 'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

  Keith Sullivan

  Love, Interesting, World

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• I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

  Peter Gabriel

  Friendship, Song, Children

  Song: Red Rain

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• Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Sadness, Inheritance

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• Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.

  Isham G. Harris

  War, Men, Rights

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