Top 100 Quotes About Defence
#1. In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.
S.A. Tawks
#2. Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.
Nicholas Rodger
#3. There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.
Christopher X. Brodeur
#4. Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.
Sellapan Ramanathan
#5. Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. He forgot that the best of omens is to unsheathe our sword in the defence of our country.
Edward Gibbon
#7. The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.
Ronald Fisher
#8. In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Alexandre Dumas
#9. The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.
William Plomer
#10. Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.
Ian Fleming
#11. I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.
Wilhelm Steinitz
#12. A damsel in complete distress was a burden to her protectors; one familiar with self defence, not as much.
Grace Draven
#13. Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries
George Orwell
#14. Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.
Ariel Sharon
#15. The Word of God is your best defence against the troubles of this world.
Jim George
#16. I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark
#17. Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the more indefensible a thing is the more it should appeal to us for a certain kind of defence.
G.K. Chesterton
#18. Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.
Rickson Gracie
#19. Even if we are separated from people, and even if there is no other gift which we can give to them, we can surround them with the strength and the defence of our prayers.
William Barclay
#21. A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
Alan Green
#22. Behold it is time, yea, the time is now at hand, that except ye do bestir yourselves in the defence of your country and your little ones, the asword of justice doth hang over you; yea, and it shall fall upon you and visit you even to your utter destruction.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#23. [But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.
Edward Gibbon
#24. At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.
Anne Frank
#25. The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.
Lester B. Pearson
#26. Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
Plutarch
#27. There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.
Baba Kalyani
#28. I studied him and realized that madness is the last defence of the mind when it can't hope to reconcile itself with events; I too was standing between routine and the unknowable.
Derek Raymond
#29. The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom
Nelson Mandela
#30. Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.
John Dryden
#31. Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu
#32. Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)
Suzanne Collins
#33. There is a tendency to treat them as though they were acting, not from the inside, but from the outside, so that it may be possible to bring the shield against stimuli into operation as a means of defence against them.
Jean Laplanche
#34. I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
Bob Ainsworth
#35. If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.
Maggie Stiefvater
#36. Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.
Henry Spira
#37. The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.
Milos Zeman
#38. I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
Bob Ainsworth
#39. The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.
Margaret Thatcher
#41. Argument against free will defence: There are some who, while no less free than others, would never knowingly harm another person, and it is surely conceivable that everyone should have been like that.
Unknown
#43. Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
Brooke Shields
#44. Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#45. A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#46. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Alexander Pope
#47. It wasn't in the states best interest to let the jury know, they said it would raise doubt that John Gacy acted alone. The defence attorneys didn't bring it out because it didn't have..it didn't go along with their insanity defence, showing others were involved.
John Wayne Gacy
#48. When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#49. Keeping technology at the forefront, we need to further speed up our defence programme & keep pace with the world.
Narendra Modi
#50. I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#51. Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- - that and such hope as I bring.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.
Shay Given
#53. Oh, yes, they're still angry. At Third World aid, cuts in the defence budget, women priests, marriages for homosexuals, our new countrymen, all the things you would guess would upset these old boys. In their hearts they're still fascists.
Jo Nesbo
#54. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Edmund Burke
#55. The Veretian palace, afroth with ornament, paid only lip service to defence. The parapets were purposeless curving decorative spires. The slippery domes that he skirted would be a nightmare in an attack, hiding one part of the roof from the other.
C.S. Pacat
#56. Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
Thomas Paine
#57. Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.
C.S. Lewis
#58. Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.
Abraham Lincoln
#59. There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
Agatha Christie
#60. The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
Mary Shelley
#61. But here they were shedding skins. They could imitate nothing but what they were. There was no defence but to look for the truth in others.
Michael Ondaatje
#62. What must be understood is this: attackers attack as a form of defence. It is their instinctive response to threat, real or perceived. It may be desperate or it may be habit, or both, when desperation becomes a way of life. Behind the assault hides a fragile person.
Steven Erikson
#63. He likewise directed, that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.
Jonathan Swift
#65. Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
William Shenstone
#66. I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.
Bob Ainsworth
#67. The divers were the bravest of us ... they gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our revolution, iran's enemies stood by Saddam for the whole eight years of the Sacred Defence.
Mohsen Rezaee
#68. I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#69. In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.
Isaac Barrow
#70. Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.
Lord Robertson
#71. The battle of Panipat was fought for more than what is usually imagined. It was fought by a people in the far south of India, on behalf of the Mughal Emperor, for the defence of India.
Uday S. Kulkarni
#72. It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
Philip Hammond
#73. Loss of appetite is one of the first symptoms. When your body hasn't a clue what's going on, it tends to shut down in self-defence.
Jodi Taylor
#74. Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
Tammy Bruce
#75. I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.
Joe Slovo
#76. Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
John Locke
#77. A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
Jefferson Davis
#78. Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.
Bob Ainsworth
#79. That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.
Denis Irwin
#80. Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.
Terry Pratchett
#81. It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.
Bob Hope
#82. I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .
John Boyne
#83. He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through, - to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#84. It was a dismal mismatch: Hitler had been single-mindedly building up his forces in the 1930s, while British defence spending was at historical lows. The Luftwaffe entered the Battle of Britain with
Tim Harford
#85. The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one.
C.S. Lewis
#86. But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
Arthur Henderson
#87. The prospect of one day being hauled out of the canal by yet another old enemy was hard for France to swallow, even more so when British and French defence specialists discussed their exit strategy in case of an overwhelming Soviet attack, and the Brits proposed a massive evacuation via Dunkirk.
Stephen Clarke
#88. With him, I didn't have to be afraid, not of what I could do intentionally or by mistake. I din't have to throw up every defence I possessed to keep my brain's wandering hands still, because Clancy was more than capable of keeping me out of his head.
Alexandra Bracken
#89. As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.
Anthony Trollope
#90. The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.
Vladimir Kramnik
#91. It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.
Susan B. Anthony
#92. For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
Margaret Thatcher
#93. When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.
Arsene Wenger
#94. We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Robert Toombs
#95. Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!
Mariella Frostrup
#96. Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
#97. Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.
George Washington
#98. If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.
Donald Rumsfeld
#99. Yes, but everywhere needs some defence against people just coming in and overrunning the place with their terrorisms or their deficiencies, eh, sweetheart, Richard says. That's right, Terence says. Got to keep all those bad refugees out. The ones looking for a better life. Couldn
Ali Smith
#100. I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
Xavi
