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Quotes about Defense

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
- Ronald Reagan
Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....
- Donald Trump
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.
In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?
- Stephen Hawking
Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.
- Jonathan Edwards
Little did these theologically ignorant Nazis know that the man with whom they were dealing had worked out a theological defense of deception against the likes of them. In some ways he was their worst nightmare. He was not a "worldly" or "compromised" pastor, but a pastor whose very devotion to God depended on his deceiving the evil powers ranged against him. He was serving God by taking them all for a long ride.
- Eric Metaxas
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
- Thomas Jefferson
Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24. As Israel's people abandon their defense entirely to have a feast before Him three times per year, God says the surrounding peoples will be entirely devoid of even the logical desire to possess their land.
- Jerry Bridges
My father believed that the truth was like a wild animal--just let it loose and it will defend itself.
- Andy Andrews
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
- Calvin Coolidge
I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
- Damian Lewis
Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.
- Lisa Bevere