Defence Quotes

240 Defence quotes by 204 unique authors

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with… — Charles M. Vest
It wasn't in the states best interest to let the jury know, they said it would raise doubt that John Gacy acted alone. The defence… — John Wayne Gacy
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? — Patrick Henry
To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you… — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Have not Manet and Monet, CÃ©zanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the… — Winston Churchill
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude. — Leonardo da Vinci
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by… — Siegfried Sassoon
How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from conferences and meetings? — Low Thia Khiang
European countries need to make more of a contribution in terms of defence capabilities. It is not fair?to keep turning to our ally in the… — Geoff Hoon
No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of… — Douglas Hurd
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… — Charles Dickens
When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president… — Gore Vidal
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and… — Philibert Joseph Roux
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. — John Dryden
The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe… — Charles Dudley Warner
We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what… — Theodor Herzl

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