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The habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. — David Korten

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

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

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

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

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence. — Rory Miller

Federal nutrition programs are the first line of defense for food insecure Americans, but do not meet all of the needs of everyone who needs help. — Vicki Escarra

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

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

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense. — Clay Matthews III

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other. — Bruce Lee

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth. — Philip Yancey

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain. — Nigel Hamilton

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

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

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense. — Vince Flynn

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

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

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

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate. — Carlos Salinas

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. — Ted Cruz

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. — Sophie Swetchine

Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it. — Sarah Manguso

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. — James Madison

Without the right to defend yourself
and the right to possesss the means to do it
all other supposed rights are so much hot air. — James Carlos Blake

Self-defense ... is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation. — Mahatma Gandhi

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive. — Jimmy Rollins

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said. — Laurence Tribe

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one. — Richard Wright

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game. — Jon Gruden

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense. — Alan Hansen

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

The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free ... — Adolf Hitler

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act. — Herman Cain

Indignation is often the best defense. — Diane Capri

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense. — Keith Sullivan

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. — Wendell Willkie

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change. — Alfred North Whitehead

There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up. — Robert Griffin III

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise. — Don Herold

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

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. — Frank B. Kellogg

The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you're explaining and defending, you're losing. — Gerry Spence

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics. — Ron Paul

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office. — Avigdor Lieberman

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both. — Bear Bryant

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. — Conrad Black

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you. — Brenda Shoshanna

You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense. — Rob Gronkowski

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth. — David R. Brower

As long as we look at the world through the eyes of self-interest and self-defense we will never see the world as God sees it. Contemplation — Brian Zahnd

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget. — Leon Panetta

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

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

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

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.

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

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling. — Pamela Geller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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