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

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

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

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.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

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

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

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

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

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.

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.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

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.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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.

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

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

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

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

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

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

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

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

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

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.

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

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

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

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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 only defensible war is a war of defense.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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.

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.