#defence

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

— Sun Tzu

#defence #lies #possibility #victory

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. ↗

— Russell Brand

#analysis #applying #big #could #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

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

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#admit #any #bad #briefly #defence

In defence, I have cultivated a death wish. ↗

— Billy Fury

#death #defence #i #wish