Defense Quotes

If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.