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.

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....

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?

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.

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.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

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.

My father believed that the truth was like a wild animal--just let it loose and it will defend itself.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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.

Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.