#defense

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ↗

— James Madison

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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

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If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq. ↗

— George McGovern

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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries. ↗

— Richard Neal

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In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. ↗

— George Orwell

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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. ↗

— George Orwell

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Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. ↗

— Ron Paul

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