Defense Quotes · Page 26

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

— Adolph Rupp

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

— George Washington

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.

— Lindsey Graham

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice…

— Aeschylus

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

— Barton Gellman

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

— Ruth Duccini

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

— Ted Cruz

I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy.

— Michael Cohen

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and…

— Cass Sunstein

They better not put me in the All -Star Game. I won't shoot, but I'll dominate that easy game. I'll be playing…

— Metta World Peace

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

— Noam Chomsky

The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm…

— Tony Dungy

There is interest in a crime-based reality show. With my novels, we are now editing the second book in a series about…

— Marcia Clark

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could…

— Oscar Robertson

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine…

— Irvin D. Yalom

England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't…

— John Garfield

The influence of Sun Tzu on other North Vietnamese military strategists is harder to answer. Certainly many of the key leaders in…

— William J. Duiker

Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is…

— Deepak Chopra

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our…

— Chris Chocola

“In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no…

— Martha Manning

But I hate the way our identity has changed. We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not…

— Brian Urlacher

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights…

— Samuel Adams

I really work on my defense a lot; that's what makes me a good fighter.

— Henry Cejudo

You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.

— Charles Oakley

You name me a Super Bowl that had a pacifistic defense, and I'll give you my paycheck. I'm serious. There aren't any.

— Mike Daniels

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

— Assata Shakur

I'm a guy that takes more pride in my defense than my hitting.

— Xander Bogaerts

I played defense at one point but my dad was a goaltender so I think that had a lot of influence on…

— Carey Price

If you're athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It's a mindset.

— Andrew Wiggins

“An investigator has to have a defense arsenal. Heck, every woman alive should have one if she wants to stay that way.”

— Deb Baker

“Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself.”

— MacKenzie Taylor

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Defense is gonna help me in particular and help my team, so that's what I've really focused on.

— Steven Adams

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire

Defense is about will and effort and a certain toughness you have to have.

— Malcolm Brogdon

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

— Reza Aslan

Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

— Anonymous

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

— David Brooks