You ever notice the first thing someone says when they can't find something is that it was stolen? They say "who stole it?!". It's an ego defense. They can't stand the fact that they might have been stupid enough to have lost something.
George Denis Patrick Carlin
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
William Blackstone
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain.
Sir T. Wyatt
Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Sun Tzu
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Aeschylus