#defence

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. ↗

— John Major

#ahead #always #areas #arts #back

Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#been #defence #exchanges #existence #forward

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#always #bent #care #country #defence

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#anything #defence #fight #goes #justify

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#defence #last #new #relation #significant

There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence. ↗

— Guy Forget

#always #andre #beating #because #defence

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

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

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defence #lies #possibility #victory

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#army #attack #country #defence #experienced