#defence

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. ↗

— John Dryden

#law #nature #self-defence

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn. ↗

— Charles Vest

#firm #industrial #keep #long #military

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#been #conflict #construed #defence #fear

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#care #defence #essential #few #function

Defence is our best attack. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#best #defence #our

Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#current #defence #economic #economic growth #government

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#approach #backyard #cuts #defence #dispute

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#aggressor #armed #collective #cut #form

Strength lies not in defence but in attack. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#defence #lies #strength

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#all things #allow #contented #defence #down