#defense

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#america #base #best #buy #critical

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. ↗

— Malcolm X

#defense #freedom #greater #oppression #power

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#defenses #roses #thorns #beauty

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. ↗

— Sallust

#bravery #cowards #defense #most #rampart

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#basically #believe #close #come #decade

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys. ↗

— Dick Dale

#give #give me #grew #had #helpless

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#attorney #because #defendant #defense #does

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#also #arms #cease #defense #hostilities

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense. ↗

— Louis A. Johnson

#beset #bill #defense #disappeared #eighty

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#attack #defense #did #economy #harbor