Definition of Defense

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Definition of Defense
	Defense Alt. of Defence To furnish with defenses; to fortify. Related Definitions: Alt, Defence, Fortify, Furnish, Of, To, With

Defense Quotations

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill

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.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Sun Tzu

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison

Defense Translations

defense in Danish is forsvar
defense in Dutch is defensie, verdediging, weer, afweer
defense in German is Verteidigung, Abwehr {f}
defense in Latin is tutamen, propugnaculum
defense in Portuguese is defesa
defense in Spanish is defensa

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