A wasteful defense is a weak defense.
The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.
I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense.
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.
I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. ' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence or defense; for the redress of grievances or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.
While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C. I. O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.
When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at the record of declassified documents, and they are mostly concerned with keeping what the government does secret from its own population. It's mostly defense of the power system from its own population. Very little is authentic security.
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.
Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.