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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
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
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-defensewhat 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
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
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
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
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
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
