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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
— Cara Black
Don't entertain others at the expense of your reputation.
— Bohdi Sanders
To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.
— Robin Williams
The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.
— George W. Bush
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
— Dante Alighieri
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
— John Wooden
Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.
— Mike McCarthy
Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology ...
— Taslima Nasrin
I've still never gotten behind the defense and been caught.
— Chris Johnson
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
Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.
— Salvador De Madariaga
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
— Pablo Picasso
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
You can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Defense. That' the thing I'm known for.
— Tyson Chandler
Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature;nor can it be denied the community,
even against the king himself. — William Barclay
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
— Barton Gellman
Your right standing with God and your connection to Him remains your strongest defense in the day of calamity.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.
— Cassandra Clare
I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.
— Don Nickles
Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.
— Mitt Romney
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.
— William Blackstone
Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.
— Mark Lawrence
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
— Christopher Lasch
A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.
— Henning Von Tresckow
I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.
— Richelle Mead
Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth.
— David Jeremiah
As a prosecutor, you've got the burden of proof. As a defense lawyer, all you have to do is introduce a tiny doubt.
— Jodi Picoult
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying
— Friedrich Engels
All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.
— Libba Bray
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
— Chuck Connors
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
— Primo Levi
America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.
— Rudy Giuliani
When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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
The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.
— Dennis Miller
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion ... in private self-defense.
— John Adams
When do the defense measures of a paranoid country become their own agents of self-destruction?
— Christopher Bollen
Try to relax. Sometimes the best offense is a good defense.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.
— Brandon Sanderson
The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.
— Auliq Ice
In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
— Vladimir Putin
Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.
— Lynn Austin
This was, after all, an army whose cause was inextricably bound up with the defense of black enslavement.
— Allen C. Guelzo
In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.
— Jason Terry
Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.
— Andrei Cherny
Indignation is often the best defense.
— Diane Capri
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
I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.
— Avigdor Lieberman
defense of states and rights is impossible to undertake if no one learns from the past or believes in the future.
— Timothy Snyder
Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.
— Carlos Salinas
Without the right to defend yourselfand the right to possesss the means to do it
all other supposed rights are so much hot air. — James Carlos Blake
Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.
— Jimmy Rollins
My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.
— John W. Vessey Jr.
Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
— David Gelernter
The two major ways people fail financially: 1) Spend when they should save. 2) Save when they should invest.
— Orrin Woodward
Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
— Salman Rushdie
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.
— Samuel Untermyer
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
— Douglas William Jerrold
When my enemies seek my life, how can I do other than use my endeavor to destroy them in my own defense? The
— Mark Kurlansky
Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
— Suzanne Collins
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.
— Michael Parenti
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My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.
— Paige VanZant
Sometimes, you are going to give up a bucket, but defense is the key. That's the most important thing.
— Terry Rozier
Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him
— Mike Krzyzewski
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
— Ida B. Wells
I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.
— Chauncey Billups
One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.
— Richard Brookhiser
Consistency is the defense of a small mind
— David Eddings