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Quotes about Defense

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
- J. Gresham Machen
Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
- George H. W. Bush
Direct threats require decisive action.
- Dick Cheney
To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.
- Saint Jerome
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
- Aristotle
What boots it at one gate to make defense,And at another to let in the foe?
- John Milton
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
- John Wooden
False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I don't mind the wing-back role but I don't like to feel boxed in defence. I like to be free, involved and scoring goals - that's when I'm happiest.
- Michail Antonio
I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor.
- George W. Bush
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.
- George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
- George Washington