If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.
The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.
It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety.
Murder begins where self-defense ends.
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have prejudices and share all the popular political superstitions of the moment as ardently as he can. But he must not have principles. He must never let the people suspect that they cannot eat their cake and have it. He must promise them a defense program and a higher standard of living. He must never use that dreadful little word or.
Here's why nuclear defense makes sense. And I know something about this. A missile can take an airplane out of the air. A better missile can take a missile out of the air.
It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.
You can never advance the ball on defense.
If a war be undertaken. . . before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
