A Quote by Roger Angell

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

Roger Angell

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Against Best Defense Expertise Partisanship

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Roger Angell
American - Writer
Born: September 19, 1920

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

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

George W. Bush

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Blaise Pascal

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Plutarch

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

Noam Chomsky

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Primo Levi

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Robert Byrd

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.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

Thomas Frank

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.

Leonard Mlodinow

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

The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a free and open society. The best defense against such attacks is good intelligence, and that often comes from inside the Muslim community.