#defence

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#defence #essentially #go #iraq #self

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#alone #defence #dynasty #ever #freedom

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#back #berlin #black #defence #defensive

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#build #crimes #defence #history #information

Sadness is also a kind of defence. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#defence #kind #sadness

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#lying #most #self-defence #simple

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#came #defence #fight #i #italian

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#dullest #french #i #life #my life

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. ↗

— E. V. Lucas

#defence #elaborate #like

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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