#weapon

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#always #basketball #catch #defense #developed

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people. ↗

— Harry Browne

#atomic bombs #bombs #drop #influence #innocent

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. ↗

— George Byron

#everything #hate #off #right #rob

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#assassin #dagger #soldier #sword #weapon

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#almost #also #comprehension #develop #find

But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches. ↗

— Guy Forget

#biggest #count #fatigue #few #going

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#front #strongest #terrorism #united #weapons

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#certainly #delight #efficiency #i #i do

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#border patrol #cargo #container #continue #destruction