#fence

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

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#alliance #almost #also #between #defence

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#duty #enroll #manpower #men #military

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#am #birds #close #come #darkness

Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#capabilities #defence #essential #identified #initiative

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#decisions #fence #get #getting #make

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play. ↗

— Ray Romano

#buddies #fence #first #first time #golf

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. ↗

— James Thomson

#bishop #give #good #i #i think

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