Defence Quotes

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.

Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

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.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.

We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

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.

If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

[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.

Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

It is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defence and the fact he died without being convicted, Milosevic had managed to defend national and state interest.

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.

No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

Arsenal's defence will be a worry going forward

Most people forget that even in Iraq, by the time the air and no-fly zone was established, the air defence system had been removed through the first Gulf war. All of them had been neutralised.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.

Keeping technology at the forefront, we need to further speed up our defence programme & keep pace with the world.

We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.