"Self-defense is Nature's eldest law." — John Dryden

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• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement. — Bashar al-Assad
• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense… — Red Auerbach
• The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the… — Stanley Baldwin
• Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
• It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know… — Ernie Banks
• The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
• Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense. — Bob Barr
• Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the… — Frederic Bastiat
• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
• Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive… — Conrad Black
• For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar… — Aeschylus
• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois

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