The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction and if war is used as an instrument of policy eventually we will have total war.

I believe society has a right to defend itself just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether like an army or an orchestra they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it working for it believing in it security can never really be a reality.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Just put down 9/11... I think on most things I'm liberal except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds merit and honesty.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security standing up and defending marriage?

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is but I happen to be imperfect. However that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

We get information in the mail the regular postal mail encrypted or not vet it like a regular news organization format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

But I am just as appalled that my experience knowledge dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does whether right or wrong.