"My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious."
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"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."
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"Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde."
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"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
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"What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget."
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"A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry"
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"The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny."
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"Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility."
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"When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense."
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"I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it."
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"Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination."
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"I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove."
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"You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular."
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"You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things."
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"We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon."
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"Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state."
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"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."
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"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems."
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"The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not we will not travel down that hellish path blindly."
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"The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is."
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