Defense Quotes
1240 Defense quotes by 905 unique authors
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who…
— Tertullian
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise…
— John Calvin
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Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want…
— Mike Tyson
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We would love to have Gary down here. He's still tenacious on defense, and I know he still wants [a title]. And I'm the only…
— Shaquille O'Neal
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Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat…
— John Abizaid
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I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should…
— Carmelo Anthony
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Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.
— Charles Barkley
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
— Pat Summitt
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We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the…
— Steve Nash
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The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.
— George H. W. Bush
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You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if…
— Sun Tzu
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And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…
— Samuel Adams
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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black…
— Malcolm X
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The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
— Joseph Sobran
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There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
— Dan Marino
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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not…
— Sun Tzu
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Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.
— Sun Tzu
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Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity…
— Pope John Paul II
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I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I…
— Ronald Reagan
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Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.
— Ronald Reagan
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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
— Edward Abbey
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Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In…
— Charley Reese
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By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our…
— John F. Kennedy
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is…
— Joseph Story
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Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to…
— Elbridge Gerry
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