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Quotes about Defense

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
— Booker T. Washington
That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.
— Dick Cheney
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
— Winston Churchill
I'm effective against a lot of teams, especially when you play man coverage.
— Mike Evans
We have to use instead of the weapon of criticism, the criticism of weapons.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones. Before
— Emily Bronte
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
— Andrew Jackson
If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
— Dick Cheney
There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
— DL Moody
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
— GK Chesterton
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.
— Joseph Brodsky
Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.
— Ravi Zacharias