Quotes about Defense
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
— Martin Luther
I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
— John Eldredge
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
— Cicero
Colt wasn't the only brave one here. Wasn't the only one who was ready to do violence to keep people safe.
— Susan May Warren
Her heavy knives of defense against misery, regret, gall and hurt, she placed one by one on a bank where dear water rushed on below.
— Toni Morrison
Didn't everything on God's earth have or acquire defense?
— Toni Morrison
The true martyr/witness testifies in word and deed, life and death. This is the cost of apologetics. Cheap apologetics is the defense of Christian truth without martyrdom.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
Real love is a secret weapon that our enemy has no answer for.
— Kris Vallotton