If you want to know the difference between a defense and an offense, assume your enemy is “willing to commit suicide” when he attacks. If you can stop him while saving yourself under those conditions, then what you have qualifies as a defense.
Defense Quotes
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
Defend me, God, from myself.
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trail of a thousand years.
Sir, I am not a potted plant. (Brendan Sullivan was justifying his aggressive tactics in defense of his client, Col. Oliver North)
And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense.
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
Having the Pentagon attacked is a red flag, not a red herring. The flag does not get redder or realer than that. With all due respect to the poor souls who didn’t deserve to die in New York, a successful breaching of America’s defense core – speaking from reason and not sentiment – should be […]
