#defense

Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate body weight…Plants produce antioxidants to protect themselves from pests like insects and to withstand harsh weather. When they’re treated with chemicals such as pesticides, they don’t need to produce as much of their own natural defenses, so the levels are lower.” (p.203) ↗

— Cynthia Sass

#body-weight #chemicals #insects #natural-defenses #nutrients

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#ambition #been #boxing #defense #gibbons

I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there. ↗

— Lynn Westmoreland

#civil #defense #downer #fema #firefighters

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol. ↗

— Abraham Whipple

#carolina #charleston #congress #defense #general

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#betrayal #defense #distrust #each #only

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#government #power #without

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense. ↗

— Bill Laimbeer

#points #quarters #scored #solid #three

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#just #only #provocation #revenge #those

If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable. ↗

— Don Nickles

#against #any #ballistic #being #believe

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. ↗

— Charles Eliot Norton

#before #crime #defense #national #peace