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Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. — Rosalind Kaplan

You don't have to be a doormat to be good. Even good people are allowed self-defense. — Eliza Crewe

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense. — Adolf Galland

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending. — Rand Paul

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy. — Robin Williams

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. — Helen Hunt Jackson

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. — Dante Alighieri

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

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. — John Wooden

The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it. — C. Kennedy

He said cynicism's self-protection, a defense mechanism used by cowards who give up on love because they're afraid love's given up on them. — Linda Yellin

Our best answers in defense of Christianity have always been useless clanging symbols unless our lives have inspired the world to ask. — Rachel Held Evans

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind. — Mitt Romney

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. — George Wald

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come. — Andrew Bogut

The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors. — Tom Clancy

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion. — Jeanloup Sieff

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival. — Alfred Bester

You can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line. — Mike Krzyzewski

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder. — Farrah Naseem

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed. — Mark Davis

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way. — Loretta Young

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag. — Criss Jami

Sometimes we sleep because we want to, sometimes because we need it, and sometimes we sleep in self-defense. — Brian Hodge

Defense. That' the thing I'm known for. — Tyson Chandler

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

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning. — Thomas J. Stanley

Your brand is your personal lawyer ... It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand! — Israelmore Ayivor

September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself. — Catherynne M Valente

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working. — Adolph Rupp

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels. — George H. W. Bush

Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture. — Pope Pius XII

I was participating in something horrible, and my only defense is that I was motivated by my own fear, which of course is no defense at all. — Mat Johnson

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack. — Jeff Cooper

The two major ways people fail financially: 1) Spend when they should save. 2) Save when they should invest. — Orrin Woodward

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary. — Margaret Edson

Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute. — Robert Goodloe Harper

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles. — William Kristol

For the first time in Rex Ryan's career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense. — Sterling Sharpe

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. — Glenn Beck

While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal. — Eugenie Brinkema

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side. — John Banville

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty. — Martin Luther

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will. — Ben Shapiro

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. — Al Attles

My first line of defense against reality is called sleep. — Ashleigh Brilliant

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys. — Christine Pelosi

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism. — Rihanna

Criminal defense really isn't so different from proctology. In both fields, it's one asshole after another. — Emma Chase

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters. — Colin Powell

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation. — George W. Bush

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it. — John W. Vessey Jr.

Fears are needless, for Christ is with us, armed for our defense. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Isn't the best defense always a good attack? — Ovid

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. — David Gelernter

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week. — Moshe Dayan

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward. — James Surowiecki

There is no such thing as a successful defense. — George S. Patton

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime. — John Barrasso

That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour. — Niccolo Machiavelli

It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot. — Adrian Wilson

One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense. — Henry James

Knavery is the best defense against a knave. — Plutarch

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing. — Robin Williams

Muster your wits: stand in your own defense. — Maud Hart Lovelace

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head. — Jeff Cooper

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. — Ida B. Wells

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people. — Huey Newton

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again. — Melody Beattie

The best defense against partisanship is expertise. — Roger Angell

I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt. — J.A. Konrath

Men of honor, men of God in a healthy society, stand in defense of justice — Sunday Adelaja

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval. — Manning Brennan

The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion. — Wayde Goodall

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution. — Stephen Carter

Although, in my defense, a nonblinking eye rape was rarely the kind of thing you just eased into. — K.F. Breene

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field. — Lawrence Timmons

Always following behind a prosecuting attorney, one defense counselor or another was unwittingly drawn into a debate with the previous speaker. — Jason Lucky Morrow

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been. — Jeff Cooper

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. — Albert Einstein

When there is no offense I make no defense. — Charles Grandison Finney

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country. — Daniel Webster

The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Meaning well is a poor defense, — Isaac Asimov

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means. — Pat Toomey

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. — John Dryden

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach

The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide. — Robert E. Neale

Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing. — Meir Kahane

We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO. — Mike Pence

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members. — Peter Brimelow

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack. — Frank Oz

I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one. — Barack Obama

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence. — Aeschylus

Winning is more related to good defense than good offense — Jack Ramsay

As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match
the Gospel, together. — Pope Francis

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. — Noam Chomsky