Defense Quotes - Page 4

• War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Believe

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

  Jane D. Hull

  Country, Military, Needs

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• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Definitions, Conviction, Flexible

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• The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

  Christopher Lasch

  Attitude, School, Abortion

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• Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

  Alice Miller

  Warrior, Feelings, Weapons

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.74, Basic Books

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• I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

  Shimon Peres

  Ministry

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

  Colin Powell

  Strong, Views, Matter

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• Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Needs, Comes And Goes

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1954). “The Alchemy of Books: And Other Essays and Addresses on Books & Writers”

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• Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

  Salman Rushdie

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

  Charles Schumer

  Honor, Liberty, Essentials

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• Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Life, Country, 4th Of July

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Libertarian Party, Liberty

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• There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

  Dan Marino

  Soccer, Nfl, Perfect

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• They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Three, Quarters

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• Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

  Willie Mays

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

  Garry Shandling

  Survival, Able, Comedy

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• I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Play, Levels

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• The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Men, Law, Police

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• America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Sky, America, Police

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• What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Giving, Males, Violence

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

  Christopher Dodd

  Goal, Firsts, Helping

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• A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, Issues, Presidential

  Dick Cheney at Vice President Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

  Lech Walesa

  Rights, Effort, Hatred

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• The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

  Edward Bernays

  Propaganda

  "The Father of Spin". Book by Larry Tye, p. 102, 1998.

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• These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

  William Kristol

  Soldier, Secretary, Deserve

  "Tough question starts Washington firestorm", www.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.

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