Top Defense Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Defense quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Blake Shelton
When things go wrong or dont 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
Collection: Defense
Image of Ben Bernanke
To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
- Ben Bernanke
Collection: Defense
Image of Camille Paglia
Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.
- Camille Paglia
Collection: Defense
Image of Edward Bernays
The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
- Edward Bernays
Collection: Defense
Image of Benjamin Netanyahu
We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.
- Benjamin Netanyahu
Collection: Defense
Image of Jean Shepherd
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
- Jean Shepherd
Collection: Defense
Image of Martin Brodeur
You can't be happy, taking away something I've worked on all my life to do and help my teammates and help my defense, ... It's just part of me, playing the puck. So, definitely, you can't be happy.
- Martin Brodeur
Collection: Defense
Image of Karl Donitz
Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.
- Karl Donitz
Collection: Defense
Image of Vernon Johnson
It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.
- Vernon Johnson
Collection: Defense
Image of Frederick Busch
The best defense is a good story.
- Frederick Busch
Collection: Defense
Image of Salvador de Madariaga
Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.
- Salvador de Madariaga
Collection: Defense
Image of Scott Rolen
Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.
- Scott Rolen
Collection: Defense
Image of Bob Dornan
St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.
- Bob Dornan
Collection: Defense
Image of William Kristol
American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.
- William Kristol
Collection: Defense
Image of David Korten
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
- David Korten
Collection: Defense
Image of Dean Cavanagh
Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?
- Dean Cavanagh
Collection: Defense
Image of Roger Angell
The best defense against partisanship is expertise.
- Roger Angell
Collection: Defense
Image of Kevin Towers
I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.
- Kevin Towers
Collection: Defense
Image of Saint Peter
Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.
- Saint Peter
Collection: Defense
Image of Johnnie Cochran
If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.
- Johnnie Cochran
Collection: Defense
Image of Al Davis
They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.
- Al Davis
Collection: Defense
Image of Chris Johnson
I've still never gotten behind the defense and been caught.
- Chris Johnson
Collection: Defense
Image of Sarah Ruhl
Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.
- Sarah Ruhl
Collection: Defense
Image of Hugh Hammond Bennett
From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.
- Hugh Hammond Bennett
Collection: Defense
Image of Tyson Chandler
Defense. That' the thing I'm known for.
- Tyson Chandler
Collection: Defense
Image of Edward Rutledge
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
- Edward Rutledge
Collection: Defense
Image of Dan Uggla
If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.
- Dan Uggla
Collection: Defense
Image of Robert Krulwich
A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.
- Robert Krulwich
Collection: Defense
Image of John Heilemann
To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.
- John Heilemann
Collection: Defense
Image of James Taranto
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.
- James Taranto
Collection: Defense
Image of Sarah Manguso
Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.
- Sarah Manguso
Collection: Defense
Image of Lendon Smith
Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.
- Lendon Smith
Collection: Defense
Image of Leonard Roy Frank
Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.
- Leonard Roy Frank
Collection: Defense
Image of Adolf Galland
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
- Adolf Galland
Collection: Defense
Image of Joseph Farah
I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.
- Joseph Farah
Collection: Defense
Image of Charles Tillman
Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.
- Charles Tillman
Collection: Defense
Image of Peter R. Mansoor
Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.
- Peter R. Mansoor
Collection: Defense
Image of George F. Kennan
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.
- George F. Kennan
Collection: Defense
Image of Michael Badnarik
The Patriot Act makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense.
- Michael Badnarik
Collection: Defense
Image of Thomas Vanek
I still have things to learn, especially on defense.
- Thomas Vanek
Collection: Defense
Image of Ambrose Bierce
The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
- Ambrose Bierce
Collection: Defense
Image of George Washington
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
- George Washington
Collection: Defense
Image of Ravi Zacharias
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
Collection: Defense
Image of Booker T. Washington
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
- Booker T. Washington
Collection: Defense
Image of David Brooks
It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.
- David Brooks
Collection: Defense
Image of Tucker Max
I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.
- Tucker Max
Collection: Defense
Image of Pharrell Williams
If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.
- Pharrell Williams
Collection: Defense
Image of Mira Grant
In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.
- Mira Grant
Collection: Defense
Image of Katherine Paterson
February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
- Katherine Paterson
Collection: Defense
Image of Derek Landy
You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?
- Derek Landy
Collection: Defense