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  • So great are the psychological resistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing, murderous aggressor. There must be no ambiguity about whom the public is to hate. Guilt and guilelessness must be assessed geographically and all the guilt must be on the other side of the frontier.

    War   Hate   Guilt  
  • The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.

  • The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

    Army   Return   Defence  
  • Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

    Self   Humour   Defence  
    "Brooke Shields: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.
  • The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

    Men   Information   Crime  
  • A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

    Country   Powerful   Hero  
    Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.22, Applewood Books
  • I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

    Lines   Defence   Behinds  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • [John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what he thought was the unfair criticism of the American state constitutions made by the French philosophers, especially [Anne Robert Jacques] Turgot.

    Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
  • What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

  • The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life and to the natural resources and assets on which it depends, for everything from oxygen and clean water to healthy soils and flood defence, means that this simply must be our top priority

    Mean   Oxygen   Water  
  • I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.

  • If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

  • Alfredo Di Stéfano was the greatest footballer of all time - far better even than Pelé. He was, simultaneously, the anchor in defence, the playmaker in midfield, and the most dangerous marksman in attack.

  • Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

    Needs   Might   Helping  
    Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom

    Mean   Fighting   Two  
    Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.169, Heinemann
  • We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

    Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.100, Columbia University Press
  • Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

    Believe   Scots   Defence  
  • In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour...In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India.

  • A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.

  • 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.

    Government   Law   Unjust  
    Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.10, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

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

    George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the
  • There is no defence that can stop Messi. It is impossible.

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

    Dream   Technology   Self  
  • For everybody has a natural right not only to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.

    Men   Earth   Citizenship  
    "Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty".
  • Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.

    "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.
  • It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

    Army   Men   Land  
    "Lincoln on Democracy" by Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt, Fordham University Press, (p. 128), September 1, 2004.
  • Education is civil defence against media fallout.

    Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.387, University of Toronto Press
  • Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

    Self   Pressure   Moments  
    "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.
  • The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences against terrorism. Our shared values of freedom and democracy are shielded when like-minded nations work together to promote justice.

    Law   Justice   Democracy  
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