Quotes about Defense
She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
- Oscar Wilde
Criticism is futile because it puts people on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
- Dale Carnegie
The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.
- George W. Bush
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
- Thomas Jefferson
Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
- CS Lewis
Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?
- Camron Wright
It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.
- George W. Bush
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.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
- Martin Luther
You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
- John Eldredge