Defense Quotes · Page 18

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

— Sean McDermott

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

— Gerhard Schroder

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

— Anonymous

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

— Henry James

Controlling that center-nose guard matchup is paramount against a 3-4 defense.

— Jerome Bettis

“Education is the people's only defense against leaders who would do them harm.”

— Jorge Mario B

Every situation are dangers but under control for me, right now we need to attack before to late.

— Mohd Aariff Khan

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast,…

— Barack Obama

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense,…

— Stuart Symington

Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and…

— Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are…

— Tony Dungy

I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown.…

— Mike Huckabee

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

— David Gemmell

I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will…

— Hillary Clinton

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that…

— Noam Chomsky

The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size, or to which segment of the population…

— John McCain

Our national defense will be consolidated and no imperialist will be allowed to invade our territory again. Our People's armed forces must…

— Mao Zedong

Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever…

— Anonymous

However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us…

— William Hazlitt

It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate…

— Matt Taibbi

Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties…

— Barack Obama

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

— Joseph Sobran

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

— Blaise Pascal

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The pen: my weapon of defense and attack when I am out of the tatami.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

— Libba Bray

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

— Anonymous

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

— Chuck Daly

“An idea is not made great merely because great men die in defense of it.”

— Melissa McPhail

“So? I know damn well that I didn’t poison her.” Veronica Lane, M.D., Treating Murder”

— Gabrielle Black

Consistency is what you want, especially from a defense on the road.

— Khalil Mack

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

— Jim Boeheim

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

— Sallust

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

— Albert Einstein

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

— Jackie Chan

It's really hard to go on a 10-, 12-play drive against a really good defense and put the ball in the end…

— Tom Herman