Defence Quotes
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Defence Quotes & Sayings
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
— E. V. Lucas
The first mark of valor is defence.
— Philip Sidney
He's caused the Chelsea defence no amount of problems.
— Jimmy Armfield
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.
— Oswald Spengler
The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
— H. H. Asquith
The only defence against raw, naked feeling was reason. Understanding made sadness easier to bear.
— Damon Galgut
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
— Benjamin Tucker
Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.
— Bob Ainsworth
Strength lies not in defence but in attack
— Adolf Hitler
We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.
— Narendra Modi
I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
— Bob Ainsworth
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.
— Alice Walker
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
— Agatha Christie
The thing to remember about a kick is you go for his twigs and berries" ~Declan~
— Ilsa Madden-Mills
They put money into attack, by calling it defence.
— Craig Stone
There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon
Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.
— Farrah Naseem
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
— Samuel Beckett
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
— Imelda Marcos
New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.
— Jenny Shipley
Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
— Jean De La Fontaine
We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.
— Jay Weatherill
You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Silence is the best defence for any argument.
— Sukant Ratnakar
My silence is my self-defence.
— Jenim Dibie
Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.
— Terry Pratchett
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
— John Stuart Mill
If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?
— Mahatma Gandhi
every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Humour is my best defence, so humour me.
— Jonathan Dunne
If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible.
— Pep Guardiola
The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.
— Jon Stewart
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
— James Madison
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
— Gregory Corso
I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.
— Panda Bear
When you are weak, attack-it is the best defence.
— Gemma Malley
In justice. In courage. In defence of the weak. In the face of the mighty. Through magic and wisdom and good.
— Rainbow Rowell
Never underestimate the kick to the groin.
— Bas Rutten
I realised that procrastination can rule our lives, yet not provide us with any arguments in its defence.
— Francoise Sagan
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
— Alexander Pope
The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.
— Angela Merkel
Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.
— Alex Ferguson
And every word sounded both a defence against what he truly felt and a betrayal of all that he was.
— Richard Flanagan
When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
— Tansy Rayner Roberts
Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.
— Jacob A. Riis
Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- - that and such hope as I bring.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Arsenal's defence will be a worry going forward
— Kenny Cunningham
I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
— Bob Ainsworth
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If it is legitimate to kill in self-defence then it must be equally legitimate to steal in self-defence
— Agona Apell
The best missile defence system of all would be a just and lasting peace.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense.
— Juliet Castle
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
— Ivo Andric
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.
— Terry Pratchett
What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.
— Fela Durotoye
We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.
— Narendra Modi
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
— Mary Shelley
The self-defence class was a mixed bunch, chosen because each had once been in mortal danger.
— Angie Sage
There is no defence that can stop Messi. It is impossible.
— Pep Guardiola
The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.
— Margaret Thatcher
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
— Tom Stoppard
We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.
— Walter Scott
Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.
— George Washington
He forgot that the best of omens is to unsheathe our sword in the defence of our country.
— Edward Gibbon
Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.
— Alice Walker
It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
— Philip Hammond
needed chiefly for the defence of the homeland
— Geoffrey Bennett
The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.
— Walter Raleigh
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
— John Dryden