"Defense is superior to opulence."

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"I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

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

Shimon Peres, Israeli Statesman

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"The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

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"Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military."

Louise Slaughter, American Politician

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"Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs."

Herman Kahn, American Scientist

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"Right is its own defense."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman

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"As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway."

Gerhard Schroder, German Statesman

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"I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game."

Paul Pierce, American Athlete

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"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"

Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary

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"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."

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"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."

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"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

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"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition."

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"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."

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"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."

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"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."

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