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If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense. — Joseph Sobran

The only defensible war is a war of defense. — G.K. Chesterton

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense. — Eugene McCarthy

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom. — Jeffrey Gitomer

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. — George Wald

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. — Sallust

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso

It is the lord's duty to his domain to provide adequate defense for his folk during a time of war or crisis. — Terry Mancour

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war. — Bill Nelson

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. — Sun Tzu

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant. — Ruth Duccini

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense
what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. — Dag Hammarskjold

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to
aggress. — Dennis Kucinich

Defense is the first act of war. — Byron Katie

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it. — George S. Patton

War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime. — Carlos Saavedra Lamas

When an invincible weapon deals with an impenetrable defense,
war is useless. The wisest decision is to ceasefire and do synergy. — Toba Beta

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. — George Orwell

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. — Ronald Reagan

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.' — George W. Bush

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging. — Zoltan Istvan

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

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

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

Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too. — Thomas Pynchon

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home. — Dick Gregory

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems. — Sergei Lavrov

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack. — Sun Tzu

Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets. — Adolf Hitler

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. — Martin Luther King Jr.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength. — Sun Tzu

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. — Jean-Luc Godard

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. — Bill Moyers

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war. — John Quincy Adams

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense. — George W. Bush

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