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Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.
Frank B. Kellogg

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.
Gerhard Schroder

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.
Mark Davis

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Lawrence Clark Powell

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.

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.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
George Wald

If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.
Johnnie Cochran

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen Specter

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.
Tokugawa Ieyasu

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

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.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Steve Landesberg

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

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

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think
Pat Schroeder

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.



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