Top 1200 National Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Goal of mine is to make first team All-Defense. The way you do that is guarding the best players.

While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

That's something you want to preach throughout the whole defense - getting the ball back to the offense.

You're talking about defense and calling games and blocking balls, I'm going to be right there with anybody.

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

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

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.

We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

If you vote against the Defense Authorization Act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

If I had a defense like Hal Mumme has, I would be trying them on every kickoff.

Defense is the thing we can control and bring every night. But I want to be great on both ends.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

I guess you kind of take what the defense gives you. You don't always want to just force it.

I need to be more of a take-what-the-defense-gives-me player and not force the issue.

Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?

In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn't think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.

Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, "one Nation under God."

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

My role is to be a roller, offensive rebounder, set the screens and roll hard and play defense.

When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

The world is a scary place. Even my mother has suggested I take a self defense class.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

I think I'm underrated on defense. I try to use my length and feet and put pressure on players.

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

I believe I'm better than everybody when it comes to footwork, timing, reflexes, defense, you name it.

Ever since I was defense minister, I have participated in global meetings on the issue of climate and security.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.

President Putin and President Trump are very much alike in their basic approach to international relations.They both insist on their priority as national interest. And they both understand pretty well that sometimes it is in your national interest to conduct good relationship with your counterpart, ensuring that those relationships are mutually beneficial and ensuring that - that you are really ready to take into account each other's concern.

You can't just limit yourself to underneath routes and let the defense kind of sit on those things.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its best. Each park contributes to a deeper understanding of the history of the United States and our way of life; of the natural processes which have given form to our land, and to the enrichment of the environment in which we live.

I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.