A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Louisa May Alcott

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
Irvin S. Cobb

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
James Q. Wilson

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
Frank Oz

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.
Dick Cheney

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
Lawrence Lessig

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
James Madison

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.
Frank B. Kellogg

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
Christopher Bond

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
Bill Kristol

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
Sonia Sotomayor

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
George Wald

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.
Rudy Giuliani

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
George Wald

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

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
Tim Conway

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.
Steven Hatfill

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