Defense Quotes

1240 Defense quotes by 905 unique authors

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy… — Tim Hawkins
Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out. — Leonard Roy Frank
A stronger defense is an investment in peace. — Ronald Reagan
The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual… — Barack Obama
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks… — Kim Stanley
England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is… — John Garfield
Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense. — Diane Ackerman
Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with… — Darrel Ray
For the first time in Rex Ryan’s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense. — Sterling Sharpe
So I’m putting my defenses up, cause I don’t wanna fall in love. If I ever did that. I think I’d have a heart attack. — Demi Lovato
...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death… — G. Edward Griffin
Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population. — Moshe Dayan
I would turn the question around to people, especially those reporters who wrote some of those articles. Are you advocating our daughters shouldn't learn self-defense?… — Matt Shea
Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense... — Elizabeth Warren
Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we… — Matt Shea
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only… — Ayn Rand
Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to… — David Ben-Gurion
Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local… — John Foster Dulles
As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with… — Tim Conway
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social… — Bennie Thompson
When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game,… — Sue Wicks
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. — Bill Moyers
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. — James Q. Wilson
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set… — Elizabeth Moon
We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic… — Garrison Keillor

Who Wrote These Defense Quotes

905 authors contributed a total of 1,240 Defense Quotes, led by these top contributors: