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The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.
I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.
For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.
I get a lot of front ball in a position that, normally, the opponent's defense is making the move outwards, and our attackers are getting in.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.
My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.
You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.
When you put pressure on the paint, you not only score but you force the whole defense to collapse and you can make easy plays to hit shooters.
Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.
No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.
In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.
I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.
You have to be out there and have a mound presence. You have to be real aggressive and be real confident. You have to put the hitters on defense.
I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.
I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.
My main improvement on defense has just been my coaches. They've been teaching me defensive schemes, how to guard guys, and how to use my length.
I have dear friends of mine who represent real Republicans. Goldwater Republicans. Strong on defense. Tough on immigration. Fiscal conservatives.
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
The historic quarrels between Japan and Korea pale in importance to the bigger question of extent of U.S. commitment to the defense of the region.
Federal nutrition programs are the first line of defense for food insecure Americans, but do not meet all of the needs of everyone who needs help.
To be really honest, I do not mind whether it is offense or defense. I just like being in on plays and doing what needs to be done to help us win.
It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety.
If I was going to build a logical defense for myself in a match against Hulk Hogan, I think I would try to work on his legs. Take out any mobility.
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
I wasn't unsympathetic as a defense attorney, but my strong feelings for the victims were getting in my way. I identified too much with the victim.
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.
Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'
Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith was equally insistent in 2002-2003 about an operational relationship between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges.
I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.
I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.