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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. -- Abraham Clark
Defence is our best attack. -- Jay Weatherill
Sadness is also a kind of defence. -- Ivo Andric
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. -- E. V. Lucas
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence. -- Livy
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. -- Imelda Marcos
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings -- Wilhelm Steinitz
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence. -- Edward Everett
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. -- Edward Coke
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. -- Daniel Boone
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. -- Simon Wiesenthal
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. -- Thomas Paine
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn. -- Charles M. Vest
Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk. -- Philip Hammond
Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence. -- Mikhail Botvinnik
I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege. -- Bob Ainsworth
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality -- Aphra Behn
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary. -- Bob Ainsworth
Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict. -- Bob Ainsworth
Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements. -- Lord Robertson
I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy. -- Mike Jackson
If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet. -- Michael Heseltine
It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything. -- Bob Hope
We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord. -- Samuel Adams
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn. -- Charles M. Vest
As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas. -- Bob Ainsworth
By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history. -- Gordon S. Wood
The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control the military and not have the military control the military. -- Leon Panetta
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. -- Benjamin Tucker
The divers were the bravest of us... they gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our revolution, iran's enemies stood by Saddam for the whole eight years of the Sacred Defence. -- Mohsen Rezaee
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President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreamed up by a clutch of fantasists advising the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld. -- Robert Fisk
I do think it's strange that I get associated with Iraq more than the people who were Foreign Secretary or Defence Secretary. It's because of my closeness to Tony [Blair], which I don't regret at all. I think that was a privilege. -- Alastair Campbell
I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force. -- Joe Slovo
Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of a crime. When duress is applied to the emotionally unstable the result can be as violent as it is unpredictable. -- Emily Thorne
[John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what he thought was the unfair criticism of the American state constitutions made by the French philosophers, especially [Anne Robert Jacques] Turgot. -- Gordon S. Wood
The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well. -- Vladimir Kramnik
Strength lies not in defence but in attack -- Adolf Hitler
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -- Susan Sontag
The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. -- Michael Badnarik
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. -- Sun Tzu
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. -- Benjamin Tucker
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence. -- Gregory Corso
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity. -- Gerry Adams
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. -- Gary L. Francione
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom. -- Lajos Kossuth
When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make? -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. -- J. L. Austin
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger. -- John Foxe
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men. -- Eamon de Valera
Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks. -- Nicholas Stern
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed. -- Maya Angelou
I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions. -- Stephen Harper
There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence. -- Guy Forget
I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.' -- Xavi
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack. -- Benazir Bhutto
War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. -- Robert Toombs
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. -- Clare Short
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education. -- Thabo Mbeki
I think there is no defending a title. You don't go into a season with a points advantage over anyone. So I don't think it's ever a title defence. I think you've got a different number on your bike, if you choose so, but everyone starts at zero again. -- Casey Stoner
In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. -- James Monroe
We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional. -- David Cameron
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. -- Russell Brand
Perverseness is your whole defence. -- Jonathan Swift
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. -- John Dryden
Education is a nation's cheapest defence -- Edmund Burke
Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence. -- William Shakespeare
Education is civil defence against media fallout. -- Marshall McLuhan
The first mark of valor is defence. -- Philip Sidney
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence. -- Samuel Beckett
Strength lies not in defence but in attack. -- Marquis de Acerba
Muster your wits; stand in your own defence... -- William Shakespeare
Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles. -- Alex Ferguson
Arsenal's defence will be a worry going forward -- Kenny Cunningham
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me. -- Brooke Shields
They put money into attack, by calling it defence. -- Craig Stone
He's caused the Chelsea defence no amount of problems. -- Jimmy Armfield
Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence. -- Alcaeus
...a tale of too many cooks in the defence. -- Ian Brown
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. -- Thomas Paine
I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy. -- Rosalind Russell
There is no defence that can stop Messi. It is impossible. -- Pep Guardiola
A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence -- Alan Green
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm. -- George Bernard Shaw
A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error. -- J. C. Ryle
Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless. -- Rickson Gracie
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence? -- Agatha Christie
Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence. -- Denis Irwin
Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence. -- Bill McKibben
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills. -- Aeschylus
The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes. -- Milos Zeman
When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal. -- Shay Given
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible. -- Oswald Spengler
The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something. -- Jon Stewart
A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence. -- Jefferson Davis
India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S. -- Baba Kalyani
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. -- Plutarch
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence. -- George Washington
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. -- William Shenstone
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. -- Jean de La Fontaine
I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence. -- Tamim Iqbal
There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists. -- Christopher X. Brodeur
We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology. -- Narendra Modi
New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years. -- Jenny Shipley
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. -- James Madison
We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide. -- Narendra Modi
The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful. -- Margaret Thatcher
I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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