Top 91 Best Defense Quotes
#1. The best defense against partisanship is expertise.
Roger Angell
#3. The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
Edward Bernays
#4. Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.
Deepak Chopra
#7. The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.
Russell Simmons
#8. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
#9. The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.
Wayde Goodall
#11. The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.
Brenda Shoshanna
#12. I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God and God himself, our faith remains safe when one of those ideas is seriously challenged.
Rachel Held Evans
#14. The habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
Philip Yancey
#16. Those who rule us have brilliantly applied the maxim that the best defense against truth is the unswerving repetition of lies.
Leo Bersani
#18. With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.
Annalee Newitz
#19. The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.
Clare Boothe Luce
#20. When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.
Boomer Esiason
#21. If you're not tough enough to take on a fight, your best defense is to avoid initiating one".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#22. Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch
#23. Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.
Wesley Clark
#24. The aims of life are the best defense against death.
Primo Levi
#27. Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species' best defense systems?
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#29. The best defense to inquiry was semi-coherent rants and accusations.
Sam Sykes
#30. The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#32. Silence has always been my default mode - my best defense against the rest of the world.
Matthew Quick
#34. The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
Noam Chomsky
#35. The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.
George W. Bush
#36. Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid
#37. Every chemical that makes it into your bloodstream - be it through your lungs, stomach, or skin - meets up with your liver at some point. Since your liver is your body's best defense when it comes to filtering out all those toxins, you need to treat it well.
Suzanne Somers
#38. Nobody likes a bore on a soapbox. Humor is always the best defense and weapon. If you can make an idiot laugh, they'll at least pause and listen before they do something stupid . . . to you.
John Waters
#39. The best defense against knives was distance. The best countermove was entanglement.
Lee Child
#41. The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.
Christopher Lasch
#42. There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.
John S. Hall
#43. The best defense is to change and adapt without losing values and morals.
Debasish Mridha
#44. The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.
David Farragut
#46. The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
Alfred North Whitehead
#47. Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.
Herman Kahn
#48. As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.
Dick Cheney
#49. I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.
Eli Manning
#50. The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
David Mamet
#51. The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.
Wilfred Grenfell
#52. I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
Sherman Alexie
#53. We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.
Joe Lieberman
#54. Providing adequate representation even for defendants who appear guilty is the best way to protect those who are not.
Deborah L. Rhode
#55. In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them
Miguel El Portugues
#56. In the nature of the case, the best witness to God's existence, the truth of His revelation, and the basis of a genuinely sound defense of the Christian faith would be God Himself.
Greg L. Bahnsen
#57. Your right standing with God and your connection to Him remains your strongest defense in the day of calamity.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#58. Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
Lester B. Pearson
#59. Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf. Don't play defense with your life. Play offense with your kids, your wife, your life. Don't look for the path of least resistance. The hard way is the best way! And quit living as if the will of God is an insurance plan. Dare to dream great things for God.
Mark Batterson
#62. It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.
Pete Stark
#64. The best form of self defense is to become invisible ...
If you can't do that learn Wing Chun!
Wong Shun Leung
#65. I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.
Paul Pierce
#66. Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game
Rick Majerus
#67. Sometimes I relax on defense and not understand I can't do that. Night in and night out, you're playing some of the best point guards in the world. That's something I'm continuing to work on and continue to develop my lower body, get quicker and more explosive.
Trey Burke
#68. Even a man accused of the worst act of terrorism ever committed in this country - especially such a man - is entitled to the best possible defense. This concept is a cornerstone of our justice system.
Stephen Jones
#69. Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.
Bob Altemeyer
#70. Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
Edward Rutledge
#71. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Stacy Mantle
#72. Burnside was in the best position on the field, could have moved at any time toward a weak defense, a defense that was weaker still
Jeff Shaara
#73. The queen's guards might have been the best of the best, but Dimitri ... well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.
Richelle Mead
#74. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.
A.J. Darkholme
#75. A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.
Tom Rachman
#76. The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
Louise Slaughter
#77. Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
Elyn Saks
#78. I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.
Metta World Peace
#79. I don't ever want it to be a question whether I'm a Pro Bowl-caliber player, I believe I'm the best at what I do, and it's my responsibility to play like I'm capable of playing and help this defense as much as possible.
Derrick Thomas
#80. Our best answers in defense of Christianity have always been useless clanging symbols unless our lives have inspired the world to ask.
Rachel Held Evans
#81. (Mike) Schmitty provided what the relief pitchers need most, home runs and great defense. He's the best third baseman that I ever played with, and maybe of all-time. Obvious Hall of Famer, even then. He retired while on top of his game. I thought for sure he was going to hit 600 home runs.
Steve Carlton
#82. The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.
Sue Kelly
#83. We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.
Bill Cowher
#84. When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
Blake Shelton
#85. One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.
Homer
#86. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
James Madison
#87. We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced - and sometimes strongly - by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.
August Krogh
#88. The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive.
Gene Wolfe
#89. To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.
Rick Majerus
#90. Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.
Martin Heinrich
#91. The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.
Jeff Cooper
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