Defense Quotes - Page 9

• A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

  Robert Krulwich

  Fierce, Economics

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• Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

  George W. Romney

  Duplicity, Political, Liberty

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• Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

  Tyler Cowen

  Selfishness, Libertarian, Study

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• A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Giving Up, Men, Moral

  "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (зp. 289-290), 1944.

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• A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

  Tom Rachman

  Reading, Common, Articles

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• Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he probably just thought it was an American city because there were so many Mexicans there.

  Jay Leno

  Texas, Cities, America

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• Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.

  Bryan Fischer

  Dames, Notre Dame

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• I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time - defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Team, Winning, Player

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• It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, Revenge, War

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• Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

  Russell Baker

  News Stories, Modern Life, Computer

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• I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

  Chris Bosh

  Nba Championships, Games, Play

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• On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hands, Order

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• Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

  Mohammed Omar

  Scary, Islam, Proud

  "Taliban vows vengeance". www.wired.com. September 14, 2001.

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• There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

  Fred Phelps

  Mean, Scary, Sides

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• Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

  Robin Williams

  People, Laughing, Offense

  Source: www.rd.com

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• I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

  John Landgraf

  Home, Thinking, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight. To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Home, Fighting, Men

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• The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Real, Son

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.361

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• What is
  there in being able
  to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of
  self-defense;
  
  in proving that one has had the experience
  of carrying a stick?

  Marianne Moore

  Attitude, Self, Sticks

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!

  George Carlin

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at all, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.

  James A. Baldwin

  Dark, White, People

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• In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Animal, World, Earth

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• In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism of its workers-there has been welded an almost impregnable defense against the evil designs of any who would threaten the security of the American continent. It is indeed the most forceful and convincing argument yet evolved to restrain the irresponsibility of those who would recklessly bring down upon the good and peace-loving peoples of all the nations of the earth the disaster of total war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Determination, War, Skills

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• Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

  Samuel Richardson

  Depressing, Lying, Pride

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• Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.

  Barack Obama

  People, President, Pathways

  "Politics and Foreign Aid: What Romney and Obama Can Learn from Huckabee and Lincoln" by Tom Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

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