George Washington Quotes

Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'

When the opposition sits back and defends well and together, it's difficult.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

Not only the attackers, but the defenders - it's on the attackers to prepare themselves to break through the strong defense.

The best way to attack is to defend well.

I will be the defence minister round-the-clock.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

People automatically think that because you attack, you can't defend. Not true.

You have to defend properly.

Great players, they start becoming immune to what the defense does to them.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

Well we always need brave, capable young men and women who can run a tactical operation and take risks on the battlefield but you should know when we need you to go in there, that if there's any other way to do it, that we could do this without risking your life, we wouldn't ask you to risk your life.

Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a direct link to the military, and yet it remains as important as ever that we have a rich understanding of what we are doing as a country.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.