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Defense is superior to opulence. -- Adam Smith
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. -- Malcolm X
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? -- Patrick Henry
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. -- Smedley Butler
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. -- James Madison
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Defense is superior to opulence -- Adam Smith
Defense is not like other discretionary spending. -- Robert M. Gates
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence. -- Don Meyer
Defense. That' the thing I'm known for. -- Tyson Chandler
Defense is the first act of war. -- Byron Katie
Defense can't guard two things in a row. -- Chuck Daly
Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me. -- David Robinson
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball. -- Willie Mays
Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive. -- Robert M. Gates
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball -- Willie Mays
Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense. -- Scott Rolen
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement. -- Bashar al-Assad
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party. -- Bobby Seale
Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces. -- Geraldo Rivera
The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got. -- Michael Chertoff
Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him -- Mike Krzyzewski
If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish. -- John Brady
Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery. -- Chuck Daly
Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always. -- Eric Bolling
I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act. -- Herman Cain
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget. -- John Bolton
In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other. -- Bruce Lee
The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar. -- Bernie Sanders
National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial. -- John Heilemann
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. -- Robert M. Gates
The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. -- Ted Cruz
There is no client as scary as an innocent man."J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962. -- Michael Connelly
Hillary Clinton worked with Marian Wright Edelman in Children's Defense Fund. That's all you need to do know. -- Rush Limbaugh
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object. -- Ernest Hemingway
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object -- Ernest Hemingway
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned. -- Shimon Peres
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. -- John Wooden
This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off. -- Lindsey Graham
I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on. -- Torii Hunter
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week. -- Moshe Dayan
Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays. -- Derrek Lee
We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs. -- Lawrence Timmons
I only direct in self-defense. -- Mel Brooks
Murder begins where self-defense ends. -- Georg Buchner
The best defense is a good offense. -- Jack Dempsey
Education is the cheap defense of nations. -- Edmund Burke
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. -- Joseph Addison
Humor is just another defense against the universe. -- Mel Brooks
Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby. -- Jack Scalia
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. -- Mignon McLaughlin
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. -- James Q. Wilson
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. -- Tennessee Williams
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. -- Ron Paul
I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty. -- Matthew McConaughey
With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness. -- Bryan Cranston
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. -- Fred Allen
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it. -- Douglas William Jerrold
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Barry Goldwater
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. -- Elyn Saks
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. -- Conrad Black
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. -- Andrea Dworkin
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. -- Winston Churchill
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. -- Red Auerbach
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think. -- Patricia Schroeder
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. -- Ida B. Wells
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. -- Malcolm X
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Barry Goldwater
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? -- Robert Redford
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. -- Russ Carnahan
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people. -- Charles L. Allen
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. -- Thomas Jefferson
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. -- Abraham Lincoln
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. -- Andrew Jackson
Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there. -- Matthew Fox
Every chemical that makes it into your bloodstream - be it through your lungs, stomach, or skin - meets up with your liver at some point. Since your liver is your body's best defense when it comes to filtering out all those toxins, you need to treat it well. -- Suzanne Somers
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' -- Mitch Daniels
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. -- Barack Obama
Defend me, God, from myself -- Spanish Proverb
I only direct in self-defense -- Mel Brooks
The best defense is a good offence -- Proverb
If our air forces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal -- Gen Nathan F. Twining
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason lawyers didn't make it -- Douglas William Jerrold
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home -- James Madison
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels -- George Bush
I read in self-defense. -- Woody Allen
The prevent defense prevents victory. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The prevent defense prevents victory. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
There's no defense against stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. -- John Dryden
Right is its own defense. -- Bertolt Brecht
Innocence is its own defense. -- Benjamin Franklin
Optimism is my best defense. -- Rod Stewart
Truth is the best defense. -- Ward Churchill
Truth is its own defense. -- Phyllis Bottome
I always root for the defense. -- Wellington Mara
Believe, it is our best defense. -- Obert Skye
Abortion is an act of self-defense. -- Alice Walker
Ignorance is not a suitable defense -- Roger Goodell
The best defense against logic is ignorance. -- Blaise Pascal
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. -- Susan Sontag
Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. -- David Gelernter
Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense. -- Bryan Fischer
Good basketball always starts with good defense! -- Bobby Knight
Fashion has always been my defense mechanism. -- Rihanna
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense -- Jill Lepore
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense. -- John Brady
Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense. -- Diane Ackerman
The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda. -- Edward Bernays
The best defense against partisanship is expertise. -- Roger Angell
The best form of defense is attack. -- Carl von Clausewitz
People use irony as a defense mechanism. -- David Byrne

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