Quotes about Defense
Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?
— Camron Wright
It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.
— George W. Bush
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
— Martin Luther
You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
— John Eldredge
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
— Cicero
Colt wasn't the only brave one here. Wasn't the only one who was ready to do violence to keep people safe.
— Susan May Warren
Her heavy knives of defense against misery, regret, gall and hurt, she placed one by one on a bank where dear water rushed on below.
— Toni Morrison
Didn't everything on God's earth have or acquire defense?
— Toni Morrison
The true martyr/witness testifies in word and deed, life and death. This is the cost of apologetics. Cheap apologetics is the defense of Christian truth without martyrdom.
— Kevin Vanhoozer