Quotes about Defense
Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
— Ariel Sharon
If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.
— Elbert Hubbard
A man can protect himself with fists or sword but his best weapon is his intellect.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The other danger is that apologists put so much effort into what they do that they may end up not so much defending the faith because they believe it is true as believing the faith is true because they have worked so hard and long to defend it.
— Frederick Buechner
A wall that cannot be defended is no sooner built than ended.
— Margaret Atwood
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
— Calvin Coolidge
The greatest defense against the storm of lies that the enemy would use to drain every moment of joy from your life is to surround yourself with the truth of God's Word.
— Sheila Walsh
There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard.
— John Frame
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
— J. Gresham Machen
Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
— George H. W. Bush
Direct threats require decisive action.
— Dick Cheney
To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.
— Saint Jerome