Defense Quotes - Page 8

• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  Paul Watson

  Sharks, Years, Sea

  "Sea Shepherd: How We Sank the Japanese Whaling Fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50 million unborn children in the last 40 years. I don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet born. I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath.

  Rand Paul

  Children, War, Believe

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• I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  President, United States, 50th Anniversary

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• These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

  Frank Iero

  Artist, Lasts, Dangerous

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• By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Government, People, Citizens

  Ezra Taft Benson (1986). “The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner”, Shadow Mountain

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• The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

  Vladimir Putin

  Anxiety, Ministry, Development

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• If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Cutting, Enough, Budgets

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• I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.

  Dorothy Day

  Jesus, War, Believe

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

  Martin Heinrich

  Moon, Technology, America

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• The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.

  Frank Rich

  House, Three, Bob

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• It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.

  Adrian Wilson

  Impact, Games, Play

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• The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.

  John Lewis

  Military, Europe, Organization

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• The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Self, Black

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• For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

  Jim Jordan

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

  John P. Wheeler III

  War, Moving, Agency

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• Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose between the defense of their Chinese allies and peaceful co-existence with us.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  War, Believe, Peaceful

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• If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Cutting

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• The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

  Dick Gregory

  Peace, War, Home

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• Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Peace, War, Long

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• Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

  Terry Rozier

  Team, Play, Important

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Sometimes, you are going to give up a bucket, but defense is the key. That's the most important thing.

  Terry Rozier

  Giving Up, Keys, Important

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense, but this is specific welfare. This justifies the whole welfare state - the military industrial complex, the welfare to foreigners, the welfare state that imprisons our people and impoverishes our people and gives us our recession.

  Ron Paul

  Military, People, Giving

  "Mike Huckabee Explains 2012 Decision; Rep. Ron Paul on His Presidential Bid; Sens. Durbin, Kyl Talk Immigration Reform, Debt Ceiling". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

  Tucker Max

  People, Psychological, Used

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• I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back : with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

  Xavi

  Beautiful, Soccer, Team

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• Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.

  Mark Doty

  Rain, Play, Fog

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