Defense Quotes

1240 Defense quotes by 905 unique authors

The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts. — Dennis Miller
The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game. — Jon Gruden
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be… — Joseph Brodsky
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end. — Oliver Goldsmith
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help… — Cyril Connolly
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the… — Thomas Jefferson
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison
Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the… — Saddam Hussein
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently… — John Bertram Phillips
Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human… — Eliot Porter
Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against… — Michele Bachmann
I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in… — Barack Obama
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the… — Gerald Heaney
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. — Dean Koontz
Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so… — Kyra Sedgwick
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous… — Erwin W. Lutzer
Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned. — James Madison
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. — John Dryden
That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained… — George Mason
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns. — David Farragut
From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the… — Thomas Paine

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