It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

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.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

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.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

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.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.