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Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

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Against Best Defense Knave Knavery

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Plutarch
Greek - Philosopher
46 - 120

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

Plutarch

Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

Edward Abbey

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quan?tum of congruities and incongruities.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

George Berkeley

The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.

George W. Bush

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Ovid

Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

Joseph Addison

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

Roger Angell

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Blaise Pascal

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

Anthony Hope

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

Noam Chomsky

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Primo Levi

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.

Ann Coulter

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

Alfred North Whitehead

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