#defense

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defend #defense #does #general #hence

I only direct in self-defense. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#i #only #self-defense

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#american #american people #committed #defense #democrats

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#believe #both #creates #guns #hunting

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. ↗

— William Collins

#easily #him #humor #i #i can

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#defense #did #i #i always #knew

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#belated #defense #delivered #eulogy #evidence

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points. ↗

— Nick Ferguson

#always #create #defense #get #great