As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.
Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?
I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.
To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.
When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.
I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
One of the marked characteristics of the U. K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.
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.
Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.
There is no defence that can stop Messi. It is impossible.
Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0. 7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.