Defense Quotes - Page 6

• There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Home

  "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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• I haven't played defense in a couple years.

  Rajon Rondo

  Couple, Years, Havens

  "Rajon Rondo: Trade was rejuvenating" by Chris Forsberg, abcnews.go.com. January 2, 2015.

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• Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Hate, Expression

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• Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate.

  Peter P. Carr

  Inspirational, Basketball

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• Optimism is my best defense.

  Rod Stewart

  Song, Philosophy, Optimism

  Song: Baby Jane, Album: Body Wishes

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• To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

  Rick Majerus

  Thinking, Important, Benches

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• As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

  Scott Turow

  Judging, Needs, Care

  Scott Turow (2006). “Limitations”, p.56, Macmillan

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• Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cold War, Bases, Policy

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• To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

  Clarence Darrow

  Love, Lonely, Age

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• When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, Play

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• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best defense is a good offense.

  Jack Dempsey

  Offense And Defense, Offense

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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Silence, Opponents, Weak

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.227

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• My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, Kids, World

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

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• It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Responsibility, Fighting

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• A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and how you decide to defend yourself from the world. Some people - their defense mechanism is, I'm really smart or I'm sexy or I'm the leader. And other people - they hide or they make jokes.

  Judd Apatow

  Sexy, Smart, School

  "A Conversation with Director Judd Apatow". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• The Patriot Act makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense.

  Michael Badnarik

  Trials, Patriot, Amendments

  "Good to be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.

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• I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Art, Mean, Self

  "La sociologie est un sport de combat". Documentary, May 2, 2001.

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• What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.

  Ellen Goodman

  Loyalty, Energy, Needs

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• I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.

  Rachel Weisz

  Believe, Character, Order

  Source: deadline.com

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• A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

  Ralph Nader

  Weak

  Ralph Nader (2007). “Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender”, p.319, Macmillan

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• Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

  Don Meyer

  Energy, Three, Three Things

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• The Scalia seat is defense. We're not going to get any better than Justice Scalia. The best we can do is preserve constitutional victories like upholding the Second Amendment, like protecting religious liberty. But we're not going to get any better.

  Ted Cruz

  Religious, Justice, Victory

  Source: time.com

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• We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit success because it's not $1 trillion.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Taxes, Situation, Billions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Trying, Politics

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